Acts of naming :: the family plot in fiction /

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 backg...

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1. Verfasser: Ragussis, Michael
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 268 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.
ISBN:1429400935
9781429400930
0195364872
9780195364873
9780195040708
0195040708
128052314X
9781280523144