Characters in literary fictions. Jadwiga Węgrodzka (ed.) / Mediated fictions ; Vol. 9

Tadellos. - Contents -- From Character to Identity . and back? -- Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga, Jadwiga Wfgrodzka 7 -- PART I CHARACTERS IN TEXTUAL CONTEXTS -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Sister Helen": -- A functional approach to the literary character -- Andr&j Zgorzelski 27 -- Joseph Conrad's "The Partner": Character and language -- (Carolina. Trapp 42 -- Peter Straub's Shadowland: Character in the liminal space -- Slawomir Studniarz 54 -- Anita Desai's fiction: Marginalisation as a technique of character creation -- Joanna Pasternak 69 -- A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book: The functions of flanks and ficelles -- Magdalena Kuzniar 79 -- Charles Williams's Shadows of Ecstasy. -- Cognitive aspects of character interpretation -- Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk 95 -- PART II CHARACTERS IN GENERIC CONTEXTS -- "A Jew, and circumcised": Constructing collective -- and individual characters in early modern Utopian fictions -- ArturBlaim 115 -- Recent Secondary World Fantasy: Farewell to the hero? -- Grzegorz Trqbicki 129 -- The realistic novel and the creation of literary characters: -- William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury -- Zaneta Nalewajk 144 -- 6 Characters in Literary Fictions -- Character sketch and its fantastic transformations: -- H. G. Wells's "The Crystal Egg" -- HalszkaLelen 153 -- Reconstructing the Gothic villain: -- Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House -- MartaKomsta 163 -- Character in the academic mystery novel: -- Joanne Dobson's The Raven and the Nightingale -- Elzbieta Perkowska-Gawlik 184 -- Possible men and women of science: -- Constru(ct)ing characters in academic fictions -- Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim 198 -- PART III CHARACTERS IN EXTRA-TEXTUAL CONTEXTS -- Terry Pratchett's Lord Vetinari as a transtextual character -- Kamil Karas 211 -- Breaking out and speaking: Old myths and narrative tensions -- in Ursula LeGuin's Lavinia -- Katarzyna Pisarska 221 -- Transtextual characters in literary adaptations: -- E.M. Forster's Howards End and Zadie Smith's On Beauty -- Patrycja Podgajna 246 -- Irony as the principle of constructing a character: -- Beryl Bainbridge's Young Adolf -- Barbara Klonowska 256 -- Characters in mythical and historical contexts: -- William Golding's "The Scorpion God" -- Jadwiga Wfgrodzka 268 -- Counterfactual model of the self: J.M. Coetzee's Summertime -- Dominika Szwajewska 284 -- Works Cited 294 -- Index 312 -- Contributors 317 ISBN 9783631640562