TY  - GEN
T1  - Acts of naming : the family plot in fiction
A1  - Ragussis, Michael
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 1986
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn191935603
AB  - 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.
OP  - 268
CN  - PR830.N35 R3 1986eb
SN  - 1429400935
SN  - 9781429400930
SN  - 0195364872
SN  - 9780195364873
SN  - 9780195040708
SN  - 0195040708
SN  - 128052314X
SN  - 9781280523144
KW  - English fiction : History and criticism.
KW  - Names, Personal, in literature.
KW  - Families in literature.
KW  - American fiction : History and criticism.
KW  - Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
KW  - Roman anglais : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Noms de personnes dans la littérature.
KW  - Familles dans la littérature.
KW  - Roman américain : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Intrigues (Théâtre, roman, etc.)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Families in literature
KW  - Names, Personal, in literature
KW  - Fictie.
KW  - Intriges.
KW  - Persoonsnamen.
KW  - Letterkunde.
KW  - Fiction in English : Special subjects: Characters : Names
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -