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Why do we care about literary characters?

Title
Why do we care about literary characters? [electronic resource] / Blakey Vermeule.
Author
Vermeule, Blakey.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

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Description
1 online resource (xvi, 273 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Why do we care about literary characters? (Online)
Alternative Title
Why do we care about literary characters? (Online)
Subject
  • Fiction > Psychological aspects
  • Characters and characteristics in literature
  • Psychology and literature
  • Reader-response criticism
  • English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
The fictional among us -- The cognitive dimension -- What hails us? -- The literary endowment: five mind reading turns. four openings ; free indirect discourse ; Machiavellian narratives ; attention ; the drama of differential access to social information -- The fantasy of exposure and narrative development in eighteenth-century Britain -- God novels -- Gossip and literary narratives -- What's the matter with Miss Bates? -- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.
LCCN
2009002903
OCLC
ssj0000631330
Author
Vermeule, Blakey.
Title
Why do we care about literary characters? [electronic resource] / Blakey Vermeule.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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