{"product_id":"acts-of-naming-the-family-plot-in-fiction-9780195040708","title":"Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Ragussis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present. Against the background of philosophic approaches to naming, \u003cem\u003eActs of Naming\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the ways in which systems of naming are used to appropriate characters in novels as diverse as \u003cem\u003eClarissa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFanny Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePierre\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTess of the d'Urbervilles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLolita\u003c\/em\u003e, and identifies unnaming and renaming as the locus of power in the family's plot to control the child, and more particularly, to rape the daughter. His analysis also treats additional works by Cooper, Brontë, Hawthorne, Eliot, Twain, Conrad, and Faulkner, extending the concept of the naming plot to reimagine the traditions of the novel, comparing American and British plots, female and male plots, inheritance and seduction plots, and so on. \u003cem\u003eActs of Naming\u003c\/em\u003e ends with a theoretical exploration of the \"magical\" power of naming in different eras and in different, even competing, forms of discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47615265341591,"sku":"9780195040708","price":13281.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195040708.webp?v=1775099339","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/acts-of-naming-the-family-plot-in-fiction-9780195040708","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}