Characters and characteristics in literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Narratology, masculinity, and reality : the construction and collapse of the postmodern crisis of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, 2010
Item — Call number MU Thesis Fli
Identifier: b4175587
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2010
Negotiating between adult author and young adult audience : characterization in House of Many Ways, 2012
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mye
Identifier: b5596280
Introduction [excerpt]
When I was a teenager, I was an avid reader even though I found most plots predicatably boring and frequently found the characters in them to be one-dimensional stereotypes who were no reflection of the world I lived in. I wanted an escape or just the ability to relate to a character, so I felt like I wasn't alone. A children's librarian directed me to The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones. This book featured a hero who was flawed, frequently...
Dates:
2012
Their ruin! Hence I will excite their minds : mind reading and Machiavellian intelligence in Milton's Satan and Shakespeare's Cassius, 2017
Item — Call number MU Thesis Tur
Identifier: b7717405
Introduction [excerpts]
In the case of [John] Milton's [character] Satan and [William] Shakespeare's [character] Cassius, [Professor Blakey] Vermeule's ToM [Theory of Mind] scholarship exposes how similarly Satan and Cassius use their mind reading capabilities on their victims (Eve and Brutus). Cassius and Satan both use mind-reading "imitation" to degrade a ruling system and build the victim up to make their minds [sic] act towards rebellion. We see that Satan degrades...
Dates:
2017