Pulp comic %27Five Ghosts%27 debuts Wednesday Thieving hero Fabian Gray is possessed by five familiar literary ghosts Writer feels classic touchstones should be mined more in comics Pulp heroes ...

The greatest pieces of literature would be nothing without their characters. This could be regarded as an obvious statement, of course stories cannot be made without the people — and sometimes animals ...

Character and characterization is an element of the text which narrates a story, tells a tale; thus, much caution should be exercised in discussion of the character in a sonnet where couplets are ...

Quick, name a few stereotyped roles for women in literature. Whore with a heart of gold, overachiever, shrew. Victorian angel in the house, femme fatale, prima donna. Where do these archetypes come ...

Gemma Bovery. Posy Simmonds. Pantheon. $19.95. 112 pp. She was proud, vain, excessive, greedy and unfaithful. Like Jezebel or Delilah, Gustav Flaubert’s Emma Bovary is often thrown up as the archetype ...

She was proud, vain, excessive, greedy and unfaithful. Like Jezebel or Delilah, Gustav Flaubert’s Emma Bovary is often put forth as the archetype of a “fallen woman” — the selfish hussy whose desires ...