John Frow

Character and Person

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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. Character and Person explores that ambivalence by investigating not only the kinds of thing that character is but how it works to engage readers and the range of typologies through which it has been constructed in very different periods, media, and genres. John Frow seeks toexplore the ways in which character is person-like, and through that the question of what it means to be a social person. His focus is thus on the interaction between its two major categories, an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-100969-3
EAN: 9780191009693
Produktnummer: 16946648
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 5'823 KB

Über den Autor

John Frow is currently Professor of English at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow; he was previously Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne and the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago, New YorkUniversity, and Goldsmiths College London. He is the author of Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison, 1999), Genre (2006), and ThePractice of Value (2013). He edited Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader with Meaghan Morris (1993), and with Tony Bennett The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis (2008).