The Resource Literary character : the human figure in early English writing, Elizabeth Fowler
Literary character : the human figure in early English writing, Elizabeth Fowler
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The item Literary character : the human figure in early English writing, Elizabeth Fowler represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
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- "Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models - such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator - originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture."
- "Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading." "Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes."
- "According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages)
- Contents
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- Habitual Action and the Person
- Reading, Writing, and Habituation
- Persons in the Creation of Social Bonds: Agency and Civil Death in Piers Plowman
- Sexual Agency: Contract, Coverture, and Legal Person
- The Case of Holi Chirche
- Economic Agency: Just Price and Mede Mesurelees
- Political Agency: Constitutional Monarchy and the Marriage of Males
- The Temporality of Social Persons: Value in "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge"
- Seeing through Character
- The Alewife and the Economic Order
- Introduction: The Arguments of Person
- Gender and Money
- Social Persons and the Topos of the Market
- Literary and Other Social Forms in Time
- Architectonic Person and the Grounds of the Polity in The Faerie Queene
- Persons and the Polity
- Proteus' House and the Grounds of the English Constitution
- The Criterion of Fit and the Creation of Persons: Jurisprudence in Tudor Ireland
- Architectonic Character and Dominion in Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
- Afterword: The Obligations of Persons
- Social Persons and Cognition
- The Four Parts of the Argument
- Social Persons among the Disciplines
- Character and the Habituation of the Reader: The Pardoner's Thought Experiment
- Psyche's Priests: Chaucer's Project and the Pardoner's Intention
- The Pardoner's Intentions in the History of the Church
- Sexual Figuration and the Habitus
- Isbn
- 9781501724169
- Label
- Literary character : the human figure in early English writing
- Title
- Literary character
- Title remainder
- the human figure in early English writing
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Fowler
- Subject
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- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Political and social views
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Engels
- Characters and characteristics
- English literature -- Early modern
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Middle English
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- Faerie queene
- History
- Human beings in literature
- Human beings in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
- Langland, William
- Letterkunde
- Literarische Gestalt
- Literatur
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Mittelenglisch
- Pardoner's tale
- Personages
- Piers Plowman
- Political and social views
- Skelton, John
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Characters
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Political and social views
- To 1700
- Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng
- England
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models - such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator - originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture."
- "Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading." "Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes."
- "According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fowler, Elizabeth
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Spenser, Edmund
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Spenser, Edmund
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenser, Edmund
- Skelton, John
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Langland, William
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenser, Edmund
- English literature
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- English literature
- Literature and society
- Literature and society
- Human beings in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Characters and characteristics
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- English literature
- English literature
- Human beings in literature
- Literature and society
- Political and social views
- England
- Letterkunde
- Engels
- Personages
- Literatur
- Literarische Gestalt
- Mittelenglisch
- Label
- Literary character : the human figure in early English writing, Elizabeth Fowler
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Habitual Action and the Person
- Reading, Writing, and Habituation
- Persons in the Creation of Social Bonds: Agency and Civil Death in Piers Plowman
- Sexual Agency: Contract, Coverture, and Legal Person
- The Case of Holi Chirche
- Economic Agency: Just Price and Mede Mesurelees
- Political Agency: Constitutional Monarchy and the Marriage of Males
- The Temporality of Social Persons: Value in "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge"
- Seeing through Character
- The Alewife and the Economic Order
- Introduction: The Arguments of Person
- Gender and Money
- Social Persons and the Topos of the Market
- Literary and Other Social Forms in Time
- Architectonic Person and the Grounds of the Polity in The Faerie Queene
- Persons and the Polity
- Proteus' House and the Grounds of the English Constitution
- The Criterion of Fit and the Creation of Persons: Jurisprudence in Tudor Ireland
- Architectonic Character and Dominion in Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
- Afterword: The Obligations of Persons
- Social Persons and Cognition
- The Four Parts of the Argument
- Social Persons among the Disciplines
- Character and the Habituation of the Reader: The Pardoner's Thought Experiment
- Psyche's Priests: Chaucer's Project and the Pardoner's Intention
- The Pardoner's Intentions in the History of the Church
- Sexual Figuration and the Habitus
- Control code
- on1042329865
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781501724169
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv2dvfsr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1042329865
- Label
- Literary character : the human figure in early English writing, Elizabeth Fowler
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Habitual Action and the Person
- Reading, Writing, and Habituation
- Persons in the Creation of Social Bonds: Agency and Civil Death in Piers Plowman
- Sexual Agency: Contract, Coverture, and Legal Person
- The Case of Holi Chirche
- Economic Agency: Just Price and Mede Mesurelees
- Political Agency: Constitutional Monarchy and the Marriage of Males
- The Temporality of Social Persons: Value in "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge"
- Seeing through Character
- The Alewife and the Economic Order
- Introduction: The Arguments of Person
- Gender and Money
- Social Persons and the Topos of the Market
- Literary and Other Social Forms in Time
- Architectonic Person and the Grounds of the Polity in The Faerie Queene
- Persons and the Polity
- Proteus' House and the Grounds of the English Constitution
- The Criterion of Fit and the Creation of Persons: Jurisprudence in Tudor Ireland
- Architectonic Character and Dominion in Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
- Afterword: The Obligations of Persons
- Social Persons and Cognition
- The Four Parts of the Argument
- Social Persons among the Disciplines
- Character and the Habituation of the Reader: The Pardoner's Thought Experiment
- Psyche's Priests: Chaucer's Project and the Pardoner's Intention
- The Pardoner's Intentions in the History of the Church
- Sexual Figuration and the Habitus
- Control code
- on1042329865
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781501724169
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv2dvfsr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1042329865
Subject
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Political and social views
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Engels
- Characters and characteristics
- English literature -- Early modern
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Middle English
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- Faerie queene
- History
- Human beings in literature
- Human beings in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
- Langland, William
- Letterkunde
- Literarische Gestalt
- Literatur
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Mittelenglisch
- Pardoner's tale
- Personages
- Piers Plowman
- Political and social views
- Skelton, John
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Characters
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Political and social views
- To 1700
- Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng
- England
- Characters and characteristics in literature
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