Acts of naming: the family plot in fiction
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1. Verfasser: Ragussis, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1986
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-261) and index
Clarissa, or the name lost -- Oliver Twist, or the name found -- Pierre, or the American myth of the name transcended -- The Scarlet letter -- Bleak House -- The Mill on the Floss -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Lolita -- Epilogue
Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present. Againstthe background of philosophic approaches to naming, Acts of Naming reveals the ways in which systems of naming are used to appropriate characters in novels as diverse as Clarissa, Fanny Hill, Oliver Twist, Pierre, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Remembrance of Things Past, and Lolita, and identifiesunnaming and r
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