Character and person /

Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category - at once a formal construct and a quasi-person - which lies at the heart of the life of textual fictions of all kinds. The book explores that ambivalence by investigating not only the kinds of thing that character is but how it works to en...

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Main Author: Frow, John, 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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