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Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

By James Grissom

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Hardcover:

9780307265692 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 3, 2015, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781101972779 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 9, 2016), cover price $17.00

Fictions of the Self: 1550-1800

Product Description: The author charts the interaction between self and world through four major phases whereby the self initially has marginal status (the picaresque), begins to flourish and court recognition (Defoe, Marivaux, and Fielding), glows defiant and tries to impose its will on society and the other (Prevost, Richardson, Goethe, and Laclos), and finally makes a prophetic inward turn (Diderot, Sterne, and Rousseau)...read more

By Arnold Weinstein

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9780691642741, titled "Fictions of the Self 1550-1800" | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: The author charts the interaction between self and world through four major phases whereby the self initially has marginal status (the picaresque), begins to flourish and court recognition (Defoe, Marivaux, and Fielding), glows defiant and tries to impose its will on society and the other (Prevost, Richardson, Goethe, and Laclos), and finally makes a prophetic inward turn (Diderot, Sterne, and Rousseau).

9780691064482 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $49.50

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9780691615233, titled "Fictions of the Self, 1550-1800" | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $43.95

The Readable People of George Meredith

By Judith Wilt

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Hardcover:

9780691645094 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $92.50

9780691062754 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $30.50

Paperback:

9780691618029 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $36.95

9780023255021, titled "The Heritage of World Civilizations" | 3rd edition (Macmillan Coll Div, January 1, 1994), cover price $62.00 | also contains The Heritage of World Civilizations

Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character: A Long View

Product Description: Dramatic character is among the most long-standing and familiar of artistic phenomena. From the theatre of Dionysus in ancient Greece to the modern stage, William Storm's book delivers a wide-ranging view of how characters have been conceived at pivotal moments in history...read more

By William Storm

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9781107145757 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 17, 2016, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Dramatic character is among the most long-standing and familiar of artistic phenomena.

Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas

By Michelle Ephraim

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9780399173004 | J P Tarcher, September 1, 2015, cover price $17.00

Characters in Literary Fictions

Product Description: The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It provides a general outline of different approaches to literary character followed by nineteen essays on individual authors from Conrad to Coetzee, on various genres from utopia, fantasy and gothic fiction to academic novel, and on charactersâ extra-textual contexts from intertextuality to history and autobiography...read more

By Jadwiga Wegrodzka (editor)

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9783631640562 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 31, 2015, cover price $78.95 | About this edition: The book focuses on the category of character in fiction.

Heroizability: An Anthroposemiotic Theory of Literary Characters

By Ibrahim Taha

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9781501510816 | Mouton De Gruyter, June 26, 2015, cover price $140.00

Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature

By Patricia A. Dunn

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9781433126239 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 31, 2015, cover price $149.95

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9781433126222 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 20, 2015, cover price $48.95

9780515094732, titled "Casca the Damned" | Reissue edition (Jove Pubns, February 1, 1992), cover price $3.99 | also contains Casca the Damned

9780515094725, titled "Casca: The Panzer Soldier" | Reissue edition (Jove Pubns, November 1, 1991), cover price $3.99 | also contains Casca: The Panzer Soldier

Portrait Stories

Product Description: What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as by class...read more

By Michal Peled Ginsburg

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9780823262601 | Fordham Univ Pr, December 15, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling?

Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the Morte Darthur

Product Description: This book is the first systematic study in decades of Maloryâs development of his characters in the Morte Darthur. Focusing on sixteen key figures in the most important medieval English treatment of the Arthurian saga, it examines Maloryâs thematic characterization of individual rulers, knights, and ladies in keeping with the twin trajectories of his history of the Round Table and fifteenth-century English history...read more

By Paul R. Rovang

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9781611477788 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, November 5, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This book is the first systematic study in decades of Maloryâs development of his characters in the Morte Darthur.

Creating Characters: The Complete Guide to Populating Your Fiction

By Steven James (foreword by) and Writer's Digest (editor)

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9781599638768 | Writers Digest Books, November 1, 2014, cover price $19.99

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy

Product Description: Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them...read more

By John E. Curran, Jr.

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9781611495041 | Univ of Delaware Pr, August 20, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them.

Carminis Personae - Character in Roman Poetry

Product Description: This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry. The list of authors discussed in the book includes the most prominent poets of Augustan and Imperial period like Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Lucan and an epigrammatist of the 6th century A...read more

By Maria Grazia Iodice (editor) and Mariusz ZagÂ¢rski (editor)

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9783631642153, titled "Carminis Personae - Character in Roman Poetry: Character in Roman Poetry" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 20, 2014, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry.

Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life

Product Description: "Characters" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people. "Character" is also used to refer to the capacityâor incapacityâof individuals to sustain core principles. When characters are inconsistent, they risk coming across as dangerous or immoral, not to mention unconvincing...read more

By Omri Moses

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9780804789141 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 7, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: "Characters" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people.

The 100 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

By Kelly Knauer (editor) and Ellen Shapiro

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9781618930712 | Time Inc Home Entertainment, September 17, 2013, cover price $19.95

The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between

By Stacey D'Erasmo

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9781555976477 | Graywolf Pr, July 9, 2013, cover price $12.00

Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels: A Psychological Approach

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By Bernard J. Paris

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9781412849869 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, February 8, 2013), cover price $29.95

Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems

By Josee Masse (illustrator)

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9781430117650 | Pck har/co edition (Live Oak Media, September 30, 2014), cover price $29.95

School and Library:

9780803737693 | Dial Books for Young Readers, February 7, 2013, cover price $16.99

The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV

By David Corbett

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9780143121572 | Penguin USA, January 29, 2013, cover price $18.00

Shakespeare's Sense of Character: On the Page and from the Stage

Product Description: Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter...read more

By Michael W. Shurgot (editor)

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9781409440666 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 28, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter.

Outcasts and Angels: The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature

Product Description: In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora Welty...read more

By Edna Edith Sayers (editor)

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9781563685392 | Gallaudet Univ Pr, September 20, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature.

A Writer's Guide to Characterization: Archetypes, Heroic Journeys and Other Elements of Dynamic Character Development

By Victoria Lynn Schmidt

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9781599635576, titled "A Writer's Guide to Characterization: Archetypes, Heroic Journeys, and Other Elements of Dynamic Character Development" | Writers Digest Books, August 27, 2012, cover price $16.99

The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy: The Shaping of Heroes

Product Description: Anonymous characters appear in almost every extant Greek tragedy, yet they have long been overlooked in critical scholarship. This book argues that the creation and use of anonymous figures is an important tool in the tragedian's transformation of traditional mythological heroes into unique dramatic characters...read more

By Florence Yoon (editor)

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9789004229037 | Brill Academic Pub, July 1, 2012, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: Anonymous characters appear in almost every extant Greek tragedy, yet they have long been overlooked in critical scholarship.

45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters

By Victoria Lynn Schmidt

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9781599635347 | Writers Digest Books, January 12, 2012, cover price $16.99

A General Drama of Pain: Character and Fate in Hardy's Major Novels

Product Description: This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardyâs three most widely read novelsâTess of the dâUrbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscureâhighlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art. Bernard J...read more

By Bernard J. Paris

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9781412845984 | Transaction Pub, March 28, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardyâs three most widely read novelsâTess of the dâUrbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscureâhighlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art.

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