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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
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Realism and Trompe-l'œil in Le Père Goriot
TL;DR: All is true, quoth the fiction as discussed by the authors is a version of the Liar Paradox: "It is emphatically God's truth" which lies at the heart of most realist manifestos, such as the Goncourts' "Le public aime les romans faux: ce roman est un roman vrai" (6), or Dickens's "it is useless to discuss whether the conduct and character of the girl is natural or unnatural, probable or improbable." (7), to which he adds "Itis emphatically God" (lxv).
The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot
TL;DR: The Transforming Heroine: Becoming a Wife in the Austen Marriage Plot and the Other Heroines: Anti-Heroine to Heroine to Wife.
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Aspects of Characterisation in James Hadley Chase's Crime Fiction: Multiple Perspectives
Ulrike Tabbert,Juhani Rudanko +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored two of British crime fiction writer James Hadley Chase's novels in connection with Forster's [Aspects of the Novel] distinction between flat and round characters, later c...
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Rebellious Identification, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Arabella
TL;DR: Sue Bridehead, along with other characters in and some readers of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, finds something about Arabella irresistibly attractive, even though both Sue and the readers have every reason to dislike Jude's coarse, selfish, troublesome wife.