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BL
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581714
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b410933
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| Main Entry
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Phelan, James
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| Title & Author
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Reading people, reading plots : character, progression, and the interpretation of narrative /\ James Phelan
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, c1989
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1 online resource (xi, 238 p.)
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| ISBN
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0226666913 (alk. paper)
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9780226666914 (alk. paper)
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0226666921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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9780226666921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-229) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: Character, progression, and the rhetorical interpretation of narrative -- The mimetic-thematic relationship and the thematizing of narrative. Character, progression, and thematism: the cases of 1984 and Pride and prejudice -- The thematic function and interpreting by cultural codes: the case of "The beast in the jungle" -- Incorporating the synthetic function: reexamining audiences and progression. The functions of character and the relations of audiences in The French lieutenant's woman -- Progression and the synthetic secondary character: the case of John Wemmick -- Foregrounding the synthetic: Calvino's "Reader" and the audiences of narrative -- Evaluating -and resisting -character and progression. Evaluation and resistance: the case of Catherine Barkley -- Conclusion: Extensions and reconsiderations
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| Subject
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English fiction-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc
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Characters and characteristics in literature
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American fiction-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc
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Criticism-- English-speaking countries
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| Dewey Classification
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801/.953
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PR830.C47P47 1989eb
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PR830.C47P47 1989eb
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