Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
First Advisor
Gregory Goekjian
Date of Publication
12-4-1974
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in English
Department
English
Language
English
Subjects
Characters and characteristics in literature, Fiction--History and criticism, Criticism interpretation
DOI
10.15760/etd.2178
Physical Description
1 online resource (59 p.)
Abstract
In this thesis, the critical term "character" is defined from a reader's perspective as a process involving three elements: (1) syntactical character, the printed words that delimit character in the order in which they occur; (2) spatial character, these printed words organized in the reader's mind into a pattern. These two together are called grammatical character; and (3) a mental image that results from reading these printed words.
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/14500
Recommended Citation
Brown, Donna C., "A theory of the perception of character" (1974). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2181.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2178