1. Augustan satire and Victorian realism 2. Terminal satire and Jude the Obscure 3. George Gissing's ambivalent realism 4. The English critics and the Norwegian satirist 5. Truth and caricature in The Secret Agent Epilogue.

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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel

Satire in an Age of Realism

The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism

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ests include eighteenth-century British literature, narrative theory, and cognitive cultural studies. She is the author of Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England; Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel, and Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible; co-editor (with Jocelyn Harris) of Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson, and editor of Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies.

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Theory of Mind and Fictions of Embodied Transparency

abstract:This essay proposes a set of terms for considering serial narratives across media, by focusing on the defining quality of seriality: the rhythmic, compositional, and sequential relationship between one object and a subsequent, apparently similar object. The six terms—iteration, multiplicity, momentum, world-building, personnel, and design—address the methods by which serial installments relate to one another, and build stories, environments, and expectations over time. These elements operate not as necessities but as options for enunciating the structures and experiences that serials provide for their audiences; some serials may choose to minimize or work against these elements. Drawing on examples from television, the novel, cinema, podcasts, and comics, the argument makes a case for the centrality of a collection of characteristics that together articulate the narrative strategies that installment-publication continues to privilege. Serials that resist these six elements most persistently represent examples of "minimalist seriality"; serials that embrace them most robustly represent examples of "maximalist seriality." The essay concludes with the broader claim that all serials, whatever their era or context, essentially contain both "Victorian" and "Modernist" energies—the interplay between a sustained, immersive, imaginative investment and the interruptive, fragmented effect of distinct installments.

Six Elements of Serial Narrative

A character network is a graph extracted from a narrative, in which vertices represent characters and edges correspond to interactions between them. A number of narrative-related problems can be addressed automatically through the analysis of character networks, such as summarization, classification, or role detection. Character networks are particularly relevant when considering works of fictions (e.g. novels, plays, movies, TV series), as their exploitation allows developing information retrieval and recommendation systems. However, works of fiction possess specific properties making these tasks harder. This survey aims at presenting and organizing the scientific literature related to the extraction of character networks from works of fiction, as well as their analysis. We first describe the extraction process in a generic way, and explain how its constituting steps are implemented in practice, depending on the medium of the narrative, the goal of the network analysis, and other factors. We then review the descriptive tools used to characterize character networks, with a focus on the way they are interpreted in this context. We illustrate the relevance of character networks by also providing a review of applications derived from their analysis. Finally, we identify the limitations of the existing approaches, and the most promising perspectives.

The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel

Citations

Satire in an Age of Realism

The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism

Theory of Mind and Fictions of Embodied Transparency

Six Elements of Serial Narrative

Extraction and Analysis of Fictional Character Networks: A Survey

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