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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
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Dickens's Talking Dogs: Allegories of Animal Voice in the Victorian Novel
TL;DR: The category of the "animal" contributed to the development of the Victorian novel as mentioned in this paper, and the analogies between human and animal behavior upon which these tales depended became a resource to the growing fields of comparative ethology and evolutionary theory.
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Extraordinary Ordinariness: Realism Now and Then
TL;DR: The authors argued that realism works best when it combines humdrum routine with narrative shock, which has been adopted by contemporary serial television, which they call the shock of the banal.
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Building Character on the Road to Emmaus: Lukan Characterization in Contemporary Literary Perspective
TL;DR: This article sketch several trends in New Testament studies of characterization and describe three theoretical premises shared by many contemporary literary theorists regarding characterization, and consider how taking these literary-theoretical orientations as points of departure can shift the terms of our discussions of New Testament characterization.
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Loose Characters in Mary Cowden Clarke's The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of Tales
TL;DR: To the young girl, emerging from childhood and taking her first step into the more active and self-dependent career of woman-life, Shakespeare's vital precepts and models render him essentially a helping friend as mentioned in this paper.
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Dickens's little women; or, cute as the dickens
TL;DR: For example, the authors pointed out that aggression is necessary for good self-effacing Victorian girls like Little Nell and Little Dorrit, not only because enforcing self-negation requires enormous will power, but also perhaps because aggression guards the last modicum of selfhood belonging to those for whom selflessness is socially prescribed.