Log in

View Full Version : recommend a book?


nathanielfirst
10-10-2009, 04:34 PM
can anyone recommend a nonfiction book, even especially a textbook,
which is in the field of literary criticism and is heavily focused on the topic of characterization?
Eryk
10-10-2009, 06:09 PM
Aspects of the Novel (http://www.amazon.com/Aspects-Novel-E-M-Forster/dp/0156091801/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255212410&sr=8-1) by E. M. Forster.
Modest Proposal
10-10-2009, 07:37 PM
Great call with Forster. In fact that is where the term "round characters" was coined.
blazeofglory
10-22-2009, 10:17 PM
The Karamazov brothers by Dostoevsky
rimbaud
10-22-2009, 10:44 PM
The Karamazov brothers by Dostoevsky

great choice, my all time favorite
DanielBenoit
10-22-2009, 10:48 PM
great choice, my all time favorite

I forgot! You're a Dostoyevsky fan! *gives major high-five*


If you are looking for great charactarization, I reccomend anything by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, etc.

*edit*
None of us since blaze has correctly answered the question :lol:
rimbaud
10-22-2009, 10:50 PM
I forgot! You're a Dostoyevsky fan! *gives major high-five*


If you are looking for great charactarization, I reccomend anything by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, etc.

Ok, I love Shakespeare, it's becoming one of my fav, but Tolstoy is just wrong!
mal4mac
10-23-2009, 06:15 AM
Tolstoy was wrong about Shakespeare, but the characters in his novels are superb.
Lokasenna
10-23-2009, 08:07 AM
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is pretty seminal, not to metion very interesting.
Iván Hernández
10-23-2009, 03:10 PM
"The stranger" by Albert Camus