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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
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Many Years Later: Prolepsis in Deep Time
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the expansion of time that prolepsis produces within narrative and the enlarged time-scale of "world literature" itself and try to enlist the James of the "international theme" as a figure who both anticipates the challenge of "deep time" and struggles to maintain ethical focus within it.
Outlaws, Outcasts, and Criminals of the British Novel, 1800-1850
TL;DR: Baldwin and Duncan as discussed by the authors provide a new account of the nineteenth-century historical novel by using the category of outlawry to illuminate the transitional period between Romantic and Victorian literary regimes.
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The Mole and the Multiple: A Chiasmus of Character
TL;DR: In this article, the return of character as a literary-critical concept is explored for what it tells us about the intricate relations between the one and the multiple in the long modern period.
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Zeus, Ancient Near Eastern Notions of Divine Incomparability, and Similes in the Homeric Epics
TL;DR: This article argued that the Homeric epics characterize Zeus by avoiding statements in the shape "Zeus (is) like X" or "X is like X", and they also pointed out that in neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey does one find a simile about Zeus.
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Narrative Didacticism in Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray
TL;DR: Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam (1850) uses polyptoton, the repetition of a word in different forms or grammatical cases, with extraordinary frequency and to extraordinary effect as mentioned in this paper.