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Character So far I have spoken of action and the ordering of events , as though character either does not exist or is not pertinent . It is , of course , not possible to have action without characters , events are determined by ...
Character So far I have spoken of action and the ordering of events , as though character either does not exist or is not pertinent . It is , of course , not possible to have action without characters , events are determined by ...
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Such and such a character , for example , is rounded out in so many ways within the work and flattened in so many others . Another method is to make comparisons with other characters from the same work in order to demonstrate an ...
Such and such a character , for example , is rounded out in so many ways within the work and flattened in so many others . Another method is to make comparisons with other characters from the same work in order to demonstrate an ...
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audience directly while the other characters pretend not to hear what is being said . The convention arises out of the desire to warn the audience that the character's real intentions and reactions are not what they appear to be ...
audience directly while the other characters pretend not to hear what is being said . The convention arises out of the desire to warn the audience that the character's real intentions and reactions are not what they appear to be ...
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Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Aesthetic Elements of Narrative Fiction | 48 |
Copyright | |
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