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Nick Carter (character) Colonel Cathcart; Holden Caulfield; Lemmy Caution; Hagbard Celine; Nick and Nora Charles; Frederick Chilton; John Clark (Ryanverse character) Claudia (American literary character) Clay (Less Than Zero) Peter Clemenza; Rooster Cogburn (character) The Continental Op; Anthony Corleone; Carmela Corleone; Connie Corleone ...
A "canon" is a list of books considered to be "essential", and it can be published as a collection (such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, Everyman's Library or Penguin Classics), presented as a list with an academic's imprimatur (such as Harold Bloom's [6]), or be the official reading list of a university.
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples.
The canon of a work of fiction is "the body of works taking place in a particular fictional world that are widely considered to be official or authoritative; [especially] those created by the original author or developer of the world". [2] Canon is contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction and other derivative works. [3]
Characters in American novels by novel (3 C) Pages in category "Characters in American novels" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Hunter, Leo, Mr and Mrs Mrs Hunter organised a fancy-dress garden party for literary people in The Pickwick Papers. She graced the assembled company with a reading of her own poem, The Expiring Frog. Mr Hunter is a docile character, wholly under his wife's influence. Hutley, Jem alias "Dismal Jemmy", is a friend of Alfred Jingle in The Pickwick ...
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American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it.The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature but also includes literature produced in languages other than English.