Acts of naming : the family plot in fiction / Michael Ragussis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ragussis, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Names, Personal, in literature.

Families in literature.

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Plots (Drama, novel, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present. Againstthe background of philosophic approaches to naming, Acts of Naming reveals the ways in which systems of naming are used to appropriate characters in novels as diverse as Clarissa, Fanny Hill, Oliver Twist, Pierre, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Remembrance of Things Past, and Lolita, and identifiesunnaming and r

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: In the Name of the Child; 1 Clarissa, or the Name Lost; 2 Oliver Twist, or the Name Found; 3 Pierre, or the American Myth of the Name Transcended; 4 The Scarlet Letter; 5 Bleak House; 6 The Mill on the Floss; 7 Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 8 Lolita; 9 Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p.245-261 and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-52314-X

0-19-536487-2

1-4294-0093-5

OCLC:

191924802