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littéraires ont su baliser leurs propres corpus, pour mieux comprendre ces médiations et la façon dont les hommes ont imaginé et exprimé le social, 1'histoire ou 1'avenir à partir de 1'avènement de 1'ère médiatique. Woloch, Alex. The One vs. the Many. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. IX + 391. ISBN 0-691-11314-9 William Olmsted, Valparaiso University Although the title of Alex Woloch's wide-ranging book suggests a work on philosophy or current events, the subtitle Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel offers a better clue about the contents. A prologue focused on the Iliad sets up the book's presiding question: "How can many people be contained within a single narrative?" (11). The introduction then proposes to examine how narratives deal with the problems of distributing "the character-space" among "heroes" and minor characters while maintaining their places within a unified structure, "the character-system" (14). Although Woloch's concerns lie primarily with formal analysis, he utilizes his narratological categories so as to include matters of theme, symbol, and social significance, e.g., to explore how the realist novel "is generated out of the relationship between inequality and democracy" (31). The first chapter's study of
Nineteenth Century French Studies – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Nov 14, 2005
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