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Article: Romantic, radical, and ridiculous: Faulkner's hero as an oxymoron. (author William Faulkner)
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- March 22, 1995
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INTRODUCTION
"Until quite recently," argues John V. Knapp, "the construct in various theories and literary criticism known as character has been neglected in literary studies" (349). It seems, however, that since the publication of the Poetics Today issue on the theory of character and the Style issue on literary character, from which the above statement is quoted,[1] there is no need to apologize for trying to deal with character and characterization. It is impossible to disagree with Margolin, who claims, in the same issue of Style, that "literary character is not an independently existing entity with essential properties to be described, but rather a ...
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