Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
Contents:
Figure -- Interest -- Person -- Type -- Voice -- Name -- Face -- Body.
Summary:
"Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category -- at once a formal construct and a quasi-person--which lies at the heart of the life of textual fictions of all kinds. Character and Person explores that ambivalence by investigating not only the kinds of thing that character is but how it works to engage readers and the range of typologies through which it has been constructed in very different periods, media, and genres."--Publishers website
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