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Character and Person

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Character and Person

By John Frow

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About the book

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 toexplore the ways in which character is person...Show more

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9780198778554

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2016

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Character and Person

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Paperback

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