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Character and Person (Hardcover)
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Character and Person (Hardcover)
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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. John Frow seeks to
explore the ways in which character is person-like, and through
that the question of what it means to be a social person. His focus
is thus on the interaction between its two major categories, and
its method involves a constant play back and forth between them:
from philosophical theories of face to an account of the mask in
the New Comedy; from an exploration of medieval beliefs about the
body's existence in the afterlife to a reading of Dante's
Purgatorio; from the history of humoral medicine to the figure of
the melancholic in Jacobean drama; and from Proust and Pessoa to
cognitive science. What develops from this methodological
commitment to fusing the categories of character and person is an
extended analysis of the schemata that underpin each of them in
their distinct but mutually constitutive spheres of operation
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