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Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction
Ragussis, Michael (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University, Washington)
Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction
Ragussis, Michael (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University, Washington)
Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing that acts of naming--such as bestowing, earning, slandering or protecting a name--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present.
280 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 12, 1987 |
ISBN13 | 9780195040708 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 278 |
Dimensions | 142 × 224 × 24 mm · 512 g |