Fictional Character: Response

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Article

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Hack, Daniel

Đề mục:

Literary history

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Indiana University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Spring 2017

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Victorian studies, Volume 59, Number 3, Spring 2017, pp. 419-425

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eng

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[...]the editors' introduction to the recent special issue of the journal Representations titled "Description Across the Disciplines," coedited by Love with Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best, suggests that description as a literary practice may be where character was two decades ago in terms of its critical neglect: "Even as a feature of literary works," the editors observe, "description has received less explicit attention than plot, point of view, and character" (17 note 7). "By making visible the cognitive and affective difficulty of extinguishing a relationship in the mind after it has ceased to exist in the actual world," Auyoung eloquently states, "Hardy offers a means for understanding why novel readers reach for the vocabulary of mourning and separation when they come to the end of a text" (402). In part, this is an empirical question: the only evidence Auyoung offers for these claims comes in her first paragraph where she offers three examples, only one of which is of a reader commenting on finishing a novel (the other two are a narrator and an author commenting on the experience of finishing the relating or creating of a story, which seems to me quite different in nature). While exploring in illuminating and provocative ways how our experience of reading and knowing and caring about fictional characters does or does not resemble our comparable attitudes toward or beliefs about real people, none of these critics asks whether or how our experiences as readers influence or model those attitudes and beliefs.

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