from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
http://bit.ly/abibliog
by José
Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Characters in Narrative
Top Ten
Cohan,
Steven. "Figures Beyond the Text: A Theory of Readable Character in the
Novel." Novel 17 (1983): 5-27.
Eder, Jens, Fotis Jannidis, and Ralf Schneider, eds. Characters in Fictional Worlds. Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media. (Revisionen, 3). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,
2010. Online preview at Google Books:
http://books.google.es/books?id=UZih8Zwh9I8C
2014
Forster, E.
M. "People." In Forster, Aspects
of the Novel. London: Arnold, 1927. 63-112.*
Hagberg,
Garry. "19. Character." In The Routledge Companion to
Philosophy of Literature. Ed. Noël Carroll and John Gibson. London:
Routledge, 2015.
Hamon,
Philippe. "Pour un statut sémiologique du personnage." Littérature 6 (May 1972: 86-110). Paris:
Larousse.
Hansen, Per Krogh. "Formalizing
the Study of Character: Traits, Profiles, Possibilities." In Disputable Core Concepts of Narratology.
Ed. Göran Rossholm and Christer Johannson. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. 99-118.
Online at Academia
https://www.academia.edu/12027379/
2015
Oakleaf,
David. "Marks, Stamps and Representations: Character in Eighteenth-Century
Fiction." Studies in the Novel
23 (1991): 295-311.
Palmer, Alan. Fictional
Minds. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004.
Rorty,
Amélie Oksenberg. "Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals." In Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach.
Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 537-53.*
Scholes,
Robert, and Robert Kellogg. "Character in Narrative." In Scholes and
Kellogg, The Nature of Narrative.
London: Oxford UP, 1966. 160-206.*
Schwarz,
Daniel. "Character and Characterization: An Inquiry." The Journal of Narrative Technique 19.1
(1989): 85-105.*
Miscellaneous
Abbott, H.
Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to
Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.*
Amossy, R.
"Stereotypes and Representation in Fiction." Poetics Today 5.4 (1984): 689-700.
Armstrong,
Nancy. "Character, Closure, and Impressionist Fiction." Criticism 19.4 (Fall 1977).
Arp, Thomas R., and Greg Johnson.
"Characterization." In Perrine's
Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson
Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002.*
Asimov,
Isaac. "The Little Tin God of Characterization." Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (May 1985).
Ayala,
Francisco. "La creación del personaje en Galdós." In Homenaje a la memoria de Don Antonio
Rodríguez-Moñino: 1910-1970. Madrid: Castalia, 1975. 81-91.*
Azuar Carmen, Rafael. "Teoría del
personaje literario." In Azuar, Teoría
del personaje literario y otros estudios sobre la novela. Alicante:
Instituto de Estudios Juan Gil-Albert, 1987. 9-56.*
_____. Teoría del personaje literario y otros estudios sobre la novela.
Alicante: Instituto de Estudios Juan Gil-Albert, 1987.*
Bal, Mieke. "1. Fabula:
Elements." In Bal, Narratology. Toronto:
U of Toronto P, 1985. 11-47.* (Events, Actors, Time, Location).
_____. "2. Story:
Aspects." In Bal, Narratology.
Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1985. 49-118.* (Sequential ordering, Rhythm,
Frequency, From Actors to Characters, from Place to Space, Focalization)
Bayer, Gerd. "'Novel Is Character': An Interview with Jane
Rogers." In "Do
You Consider Yourself a Postmodern Author?": Interviews with Contemporary
English Writers. Ed.
Rudolf Freiburg and Jan Schnitker. Münster: Lit Verlag, 1999. 201-18.*
Bobes Naves, C. "El personaje
novelesco: cómo es, cómo se construye." In M. Mayoral 1990.
Bonheim,
Helmut. "Characterization in the Short Story: Analysis by Narrative
Modes." Literatur in Wissenschaft
und Unterrticht 15 (1982): 175-87. Rev. version in Bonheim, Literary Systematics.
Boyd,
Brian. "Part 4: Phylogeny: The
Odyssey." In Boyd, On the Origin
of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Cambridge (MA) and London:
Harvard UP-Belknap Press, 2009. 213-317.* (Attention, Character and Plot,
Patterns, Intelligence, Immediacy, Cooperation, Punishment).
Bukatman, Scott. Terminal
Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science-Fiction. Durham (NC):
Duke UP, 1993. 1998.* (Ballard, P. K. Dick, Burroughs, Cronenberg, Gibson,
space, virtual reality, Tron, cyborgs, Alien, addiction, internet, body,
identity, Schwarzenegger, Delany, postmodernism, Sterling, Tiptree)
Byatt, A.
S., and Inês Sodré. Imagining Characters:
Six Conversations about Women Writers. Ed. Rebeccca Swift. London: Chatto,
1995.
Caracciolo, Marco. "1. Not So Easy:
Representation, Experience, Expression." In Caracciolo, The Experientiality of Narrative. Berlin
and Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. 29-44.* (From Representation to Expression; On
Characters' Experiences; Expressive Devices).
_____. "4. Blind Reading: Bodily and
Perceptual Responses to Narrative." In Caracciolo, The Experientiality of Narrative. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter,
2014. 93-109.* (The Enactivist Theory of Experience; Enacting Narrative Space;
Enacting Characters' Bodily-Perceptual Experiences; Enacting Qualia through
Metaphorical Language).
Chatman,
Seymour. "On the Formalist-Structuralist Theory of Character." Journal of Literary Semantics 1 (1972):
57-79.
_____.
"Characters and Narrators: Filter, Center, Slant, and
Interest-Focus." Poetics Today
7.2 (1986): 189-224.
_____.
"3. Character and Setting." In Chatman, Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan, 1993. 58-89.*
(Character: A Definition; Characterization; Setting: Isaac Bashevis Singer,
'Short Friday'; Isaac Babel, 'How It was Done in Odessa'; Virginia Woolf, 'Kew
Gardens').
_____.
"5. Point of View: Character's Filter and Narrator's Slant." In
Chatman, Reading Narrative Fiction.
New York: Macmillan, 1993. 130-85* (Character's Filter; The Filter Character Is
Not the Narrator; narrator's Slant; The Grammar of Filter; Filter in Internal
Narration: James Joyce, 'A Little Cloud'; James Baldwin, 'The Rockpile'; Nadine
Gordimer, 'Town and Country Lovers'; V. S. Naipaul, 'The Thing Without a Name';
Mary McCarthy, "C.Y.E.")
Clement,
Hal. "The Creation of Imaginary Beings." In Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Reginald Bretnor. New
York: Harper, 1974. 259-75.
Cohan,
Steven. "Figures Beyond the Text: A Theory of Readable Character in the
Novel." Novel 17 (1983): 5-27.
Cohn,
Dorrit. "Fictional versus
Historical Lives: Borderlines and Borderline Cases." Journal of Narrative Technique 19.1 (1989): 3-30.
Combarieu, Micheline de. "Image
et réprésentation du vilain dans les chansons de geste (et dans quelques autres
textes médievaux)." Senefiance 5
(1978): 7-26.
Crane, J.
"Defoe's Roxana: The Making and Unmaking of a Heroine." Modern Language Review 102.1 (2007):
11-25.
Currie,
Gregory. "10. Narrative and Character." In Currie, Narratives and Narrators: A Philosophy of
Stories. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. 186-98.* (Preliminaries - Some Claims
about Character - What Narrative Does for Character - What Character Does for
Narrative - Character and the Critic).
_____.
"11. Character Scepticism." In Currie, Narratives and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories. Oxford: Oxford
UP, 2010. 199-218.* (The Case against Character - Response - Simplifying the
Problem - The Role of Character in Narrative - Reflections - Appendix:
Character and the Costs of Deception).
Doane, Mary
Ann. "Misrecognition and Identity." Cine-Tracts 11 (Fall 1980).
Docherty,
Thomas. "Postmodern Characterization: The Ethics of Alterity." In Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction.
Ed. Edmund J. Smyth. London: Batsford, 1991. 169-88.
Durand,
Regis. "On 'Aphanisis': A Note on the Dramaturgy of the Subject in
Narrative Analysis." MLN 98.5
(December 1983).
Eder, Jens.
Die Figur im Film: Grundlagen der
Figurenanalyse. Marburg: Schueren 2008.
Eder, Jens, Fotis Jannidis, and Ralf Schneider, eds. Characters in Fictional Worlds. Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media. (Revisionen, 3). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,
2010. Online preview at Google Books:
http://books.google.es/books?id=UZih8Zwh9I8C
2014
Encinar, Blanca. Novela española actual: La desparición del héroe. Madrid, 1990.
Ewen,
Joseph. "The Theory of Character in Narrative Fiction." Ha-Sifrut 3 (1971): 1-30.
_____. Character in Narrative. Tel Aviv:
Sifri'at Po'alim, 1980.
Fokkema,
Aleid. Postmodern Characters: A Study of
Characterization in British and American Postmodern Fiction. Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 1991.*
_____. "Post-Modern Fragmentation or Authentic Essence? Character
in The Satanic Verses." In Shades of Empire in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Literatures. Ed. C. C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen. Asterdam:
Rodopi, 1993.
Forster, E.
M. "People." In Forster, Aspects
of the Novel. London: Arnold, 1927. 63-112.*
_____.
"[Flat and Round Characters and Point of View]." From Aspects of the Novel. In 20th Century Literary Criticism: A Reader.
Ed. David Lodge. London: Longman, 1972. 137-45.*
_____.
"Flat and Round Characters." In Essentials
of the Theory of Fiction. Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.
Durham (NC): Duke UP, 1988. 40-47.*
Fowler,
Roger. Linguistics and the Novel.
London: Methuen, 1977.*
Galloway, David. The Absurd Hero in American Fiction.
Austin: U of Texas P, 1966.
García Gual, Carlos. "La crisis del
héroe." In García Gual, Los orígenes
de la novela. Madrid: Istmo, 1972. 117-32.*
García
Landa, José Ángel. "Le
traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement
de Louis et le Pèlerinage de
Charlemagne." Typescript, U de Zaragoza, 1990.
_____. "Le traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement de Louis et le Pèlerinage
de Charlemagne." Online at Net
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2012 DISCONTINUED 2020 – Online at the Internet
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2020
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2020
_____. "Le traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement de Louis et le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne." Social Science Research Network 4 Nov.
2012.*
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2012
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2012.*
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2012
Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art
eJournal 4 Nov. 2012.*
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2013
_____. "Le traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement de Louis et le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne."
Academia.edu 22 Oct. 2012.*
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2012
_____. "Le traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement de Louis et le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne."
ResearchGate 7 Oct. 2013.*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257388369
2013
_____. "Le traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement de Louis et le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne." Humanities
Commons 1 July 2018.*
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2018
_____. "Le traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement de Louis et le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne." Vanity Fea
1 July 2018.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2018/07/le-traitement-des-personnages-dans-le.html
2018
_____. "Le traitement des personnages dans le Couronnement de Louis et le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne." Semantic
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https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Le-traitement-des-personnages-dans-'Le-Couronnement-Landa-%C3%81ngel./c1cb533887c4cde40fb907db34d8d780e59e9278
2019
_____. "Sémiologie du personnage littéraire (Philippe Hamon)."
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2011.*
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2011
_____. "Semiología del personaje
literario." In García Landa, Vanity
Fea 7 May 2011.* (Philippe
Hamon).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/05/semiologia-del-personaje-literario.html
2011
_____. "Philippe
Hamon: Pour un statut sémiologique du personnage / Hacia una constitución
semiótica del personaje." Net Sight
de José Angel García Landa 12 Oct. 2015.*
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/HamonStatut.html
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_____. "Philippe
Hamon: Pour un statut sémiologique du personnage / Hacia una constitución
semiótica del personaje." Academia
6 March 2017.*
https://www.academia.edu/31740642/
2017
_____. "Philippe
Hamon: Pour un statut sémiologique du personnage / Hacia una constitución
semiótica del personaje." ResearchGate
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314278959
2017
García Llamas, Mª Belén. Detrás de la
realidad aparente: Personaje y entorno en la novela de Clara Sánchez. Ph.D. diss. UNED, 2015. Online at Academia.*
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_____.
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_____.
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_____.
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_____.
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_____.
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_____.
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_____.
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See also
Characters (general); Characters (in drama).