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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
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The Novel and WikiLeaks: Transparency and the Social Life of Privacy
Abstract: What can fiction tell us about privacy? Thirty years ago, in The Novel and the Police (1988), D. A. Miller suggested that we can intuit the privacy of literary characters as “an integral, autonomous, ‘secret’ self,” one “whose ultimate meaning lies in the subject’s formal insistence that he is radically inaccessible to the culture that would otherwise entirely determine him” (162, 195). In this essay, I propose a shift away from thinking about privacy, in fiction and the world, as concerned with an individual’s interior, toward thinking about it as something that inheres in interpersonal and group interactions. This view of privacy becomes especially visible as both a formal feature and a thematic concern in recent novels that take up WikiLeaks as a topic, novels that try to square the competing ideals of governmental transparency and individual privacy. By attending to the ways that two contemporary novelists describe information flow between characters, we can grasp privacy as a facet of our social and information networks. A rich thread in literary scholarship shows how the history of privacy reflects a history of the liberal self, arguably starting with Miller’s influential study. More recently, David Rosen and Aaron Santesso have traced the intellectual history of modern privacy to nineteenth-century romantic and liberal conceptions of the self, particularly in the writings of William Wordsworth and John Stuart Mill that influenced Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s landmark 1890 essay on privacy as the domain of an “inviolate personality,” a curiously self-contained notion of the self (Rosen and Santesso 115– 17). As Lauren Berlant, Deborah Nelson, and Simone Browne have shown, debates about privacy are also highly politicized arguments
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Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
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Analyzing the structure of parent-moderated narratives from children with ASD using an entity-based approach
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the structure of children's stories narrated with the help of their parents using entity-based feature-level patterns in order to see how there are influenced by the parents' narrative elicitation techniques.