For fans of classic books, half of the fun in consuming great stories is imagining what each character looks like in your own mind. When the eventual big-screen adaption rolls around, comparing ...

The Composites Tumblr reveals what police sketches of famous literary characters would look like if the artist only had the books to go on. The Composites is a Tumblr that provides police sketch-style ...

New Tumblr blog applies facial-composite program to descriptions of characters in a variety of novels--from Dr. Robert Vaughn in J.G. Ballard's "Crash" to Humbert Humbert of "Lolita." Ed is a ...

PEOPLE have written me to ask how I could write fiction with the moistness and vividness of dreams? I start with a character sketch, which is the literary equivalent of using pencil and paper to ...

The articles by James Phelan, Gerald Mead, David Fishelov, and Baruch Hochman and Ilja Wachs in this issue may be placed in the larger context of the various areas of theory of character. Literary ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association publishes articles on literature, literary theory, pedagogy, and the state ...