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

By:

Ragussis, Michael

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.Description: 1 online resource (x, 268 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1429400935
9781429400930
0195364872
9780195364873
9780195040708
0195040708
128052314X
9781280523144

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acts of naming.DDC classification:

823/.009/24 19

LOC classification:

PR830.N35 R3 1986eb

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Contents:

Clarissa, or the name lost -- Oliver Twist, or the name found -- Pierre, or the American myth of the name transcended -- The Scarlet letter -- Bleak House -- The Mill on the Floss -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Lolita -- Epilogue.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.

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.