PEP | Article - Narcissus from Rubble: Competing Models of Character in Contemporary British and American Fiction by Julius Rowan Raper Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992, xv + 165 pp., $27.50

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Abstract

Early in this century D. H. Lawrence boldly warned his friend David Garnett not to look for the old stable ego of character in his novels. This announcement, radical for its time, has become a prophecy of characterization in modern literature. Discontinuity, fragmentation, and disruption are so evident among literary characters that today's serious reader would no more expect a stable ego to dominate a modern novel than he would expect to find a king or prince at the center of a modern play. As modernism has

PEP | Article - Narcissus from Rubble: Competing Models of Character in Contemporary British and American Fiction by Julius Rowan Raper Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992, xv + 165 pp., $27.50 - Ross, Daniel