Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in FictionOxford University Press, 08.01.1987 - 278 Seiten 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. Against the 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 identifies unnaming and renaming as the locus of power in the family's plot to control the child, and more particularly, to rape the daughter. His analysis also treats additional works by Cooper, Brontë, Hawthorne, Eliot, Twain, Conrad, and Faulkner, extending the concept of the naming plot to reimagine the traditions of the novel, comparing American and British plots, female and male plots, inheritance and seduction plots, and so on. Acts of Naming ends with a theoretical exploration of the "magical" power of naming in different eras and in different, even competing, forms of discourse. |
Inhalt
3 | |
PART ONE THE NAMING PLOTS OF FICTION | 17 |
PART TWO FICTION AND FAMILY DISCOURSE | 63 |
PART THREE FICTION AND THE TRADITIONS OF NAMING | 163 |
Notes | 245 |
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acts of naming Albertine allegory Angel Angel Clare Anna becomes beginning beloved Bleak House body chapter characters child Chillingworth Clare Clarissa Clarissa Harlowe class name confession Cratylus d'Urberville daughter dead death Deerslayer Dimmesdale Dimmesdale's discourse Durbeyfield entire erotic especially Esther example face fact family name family plot Fanny Hill fantasy father fiction Floss function George Eliot Guster Hardy Hardy's Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Hester human Humbert idea identity ironic Isabel Lady Dedlock language literal Lolita Lovelace lover Maggie Maggie's magic of naming mark meaning mother Nabokov nameless naming plot narrative narrator nature novel novelistic nymphet Oliver Twist one's parent Pearl person philosophy Pierre Pierre's proper name Proust's Puritan question recall renaming role Scarlet Letter science of classification simply speak story suggests symbolic takes tells Tess Tess's thereby things Thomas Hardy tion tradition Tulliver Tulliver's undermines unnaming woman words writing Wuthering Heights
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