The One vs the Many Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel 1st Edition by Alex Woloch ISBN 140082575X 9781400825752

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ISBN 10: 140082575X

ISBN 13: 9781400825752 

Author: Alex Woloch 

Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory.

Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Le Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual–whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one–emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The “character-space,” as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel’s very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation.

Woloch’s discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.

Table of contents:

• The Iliad’s Two Wars

• A Reading of Book 2

• The Death of Lykaon

• Characterization and Distribution

• Characterization and the Antinomies of Theory

• They Too Should Have a Case

• Two Kinds of Minorness

• The Labor Theory of Character

Partings Welded Together: The Character-System in Great Expectations

• The Structure of Childhood Experience

• Signification, Position, Structure

• Metaphor, Metonymy, and Characterization

• Getting to London

• Three Narrative Workers and the Dispersion of Labor in Great Expectations

• Wemmick as Helper: The Functional Minor Character

• Magwitch’s Return: The Marginal Minor Character

• Orlick and Social Multiplicity: The Fragmented Minor Character

Realism, Democracy, and Inequality

• Character-Space in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

• Between Story and Discourse

• Narrative Asymmetry in Pride and Prejudice

• The Double Meaning of Character

• The One vs. the Many

• From Discourse to Story

• Compression

• Elizabeth’s Consciousness

• Externality

• Charlotte Lucas and the Actantial Theory

• Elizabeth’s Self-Consciousness

• “How He Lived I Know Not”

• Representing Multiplicity

• Making More of Minor Characters

• Asymmetry and Misalignment in The Pickwick Papers

• Mr. Elton and Uriah Heep

• The Appearance of Minor Characters

• Minor Characters and the Division of Labor

• Minorness and Three Kinds of Repetition

A Narrative Condition?

• À qui la place? Characterization and Competition in Le Père Goriot and La Comédie humaine

• Character Type, Crowd

• Balzac’s Double Vision

• The Character-System in Le Père Goriot: La belle lot de soi pour soi

• The Interior as Exterior

• The Exterior as Interior

• Between the Exterior and the Interior

• Interiority and Centrality in Le Père Goriot and King Lear

• The Shrapnel of Le Père Goriot

• Le Père Goriot and Le Cousin Pons

• Les Poiret between Le Père Goriot and Les Employés

• Competition and Character in Les Employés

• Sophocles’s Oedipus and the Prehistory of the Protagonist

• Notes

• Works Cited

• Acknowledgments

• Index

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