520 Over the last few decades, most scholars have tended to dismiss literary character as a subject unworthy of serious academic discussion, considering character based criticism as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are...
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520 Over the last few decades, most scholars have tended to dismiss literary character as a subject unworthy of serious academic discussion, considering character based criticism as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad revision of our understanding of character, this volume rethinks these questions from the ground up. Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Tori Moi reimagine and renew literary studies. Moi returns to, and refutes, the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to sop doing character criticism. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands and its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studied Introduction /Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi --Rethinking character /Toril Moi --Identifying with characters /Rita Felski --Thinking with character /Amanda Anderson
