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Pages in category "Fictional characters with alter egos" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The term is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical. This category is for alter egos of real people. For alter egos of fictional characters, see: Category:Fictional characters with alter egos
This series of essays embraced traditional womanhood. Martineau dedicated it to Elizabeth Barrett, as it was "an outpouring of feeling to an idealized female alter ego, both professional writer and professional invalid- and utterly unlike the women in her own family". Written during a kind of public break from her mother, this book was ...
A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior speech, or thoughts, often ...
Quailman is the alter ego of Doug Funnie in the animated TV sitcom Doug. Quiverwing Quack is the alter ego of Gosalyn Mallard in the Disney animated series Darkwing Duck. Ran is the alter ego of Sunao from the anime novel Sukisho. Duane Dibbley is the alter ego of Cat and Ace Rimmer is the alter ego of Rimmer in the sci-fi TV show Red Dwarf.
[b] For example, a project at the University of Alberta and University of Guelph on the history of women's writing in the British Isles was named after the book. [c] A literary critique of Orlando on an onomastic and psychological basis was conducted by the historian and Italianist Alessio Bologna in his book L’Orlando ariostesco in Virginia ...
According to literary theorist Cornelius Quassus, in the novel Anna Karenina, "unofficial institutions of the system, presented through social salons, function as part of the power apparatus that successfully calms the disorder created by Anna's irrational emotional action, which is a symbol of resistance to the system of social behavioral ...
The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared in the 1796 novel Siebenkäs by Johann Paul Richter, the double figure emerged in Gothic literature in the late 18th century due to a resurgence of interest in mythology and folklore which explored notions of duality, such as the fetch in Irish ...