Vernacular Focus

Translate the underlined phrases from the meta-focus text above, suggest translation of the sentences below into English

1. Характеристика героя может включать описание его внешности, особенностей речи, указание на социальный статус, личностные характеристики, особенности поведения, взгляды на жизнь.

Characterization involves appearance, personality, social status, outlook.

2. Предположительно, воображаемый персонаж может произвести впечатление на читателя, только если автор покажет его суть, то, как он живет, чем дышит.

It is easy to presume that successful characterization involves taking the reader to the heart, the inner core, of an imagined person.

3. Однако живым и интересным читателю героя могут сделать и детали, характеризующие его внешность.

But the character may be interesting for the reader by characterization which involves his appearance.

Practical Focus

How does the way these characters look help understand them?

Comment on the appearance and link it to the characteristic features of Печорин М.Ю. Лермонтов Герой Нашего Времени, Обломов, Штольц И.А. Гончаров Обломов, Jane Eyre Ch. Bronte Jane Eyre, Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes A. C. Doyle

Specific features: speech characterization, accent, speech defects

Jason Taylor Black Swan Green by D. Mitchell - Mitchell has the speech disorder of stammering: “I’d probably still be avoiding the subject today had I not outed myself by writing a semi-autobiographical novel, Black Swan Green, narrated by a stammering 13 year old”(Mitchell in Prospect magazine, 2011)

Excerpts from novels

How are characters introduced in the novel you are currently reading?

Marcus About a Boy by N. Hornby

Carmel and Karina An Experiment in Love by H. Mantel

Eugene Wren, Gilbert Gibson Portobello by Ruth Rendell

Robyn Penrose, Vic Wilcox Nice Work by D. Lodge

Motivations

One of the traditional tasks of novelists has been simply to seem true to their characters’ motivations. Everyone has their unspoken needs and their reasons. For much of its history, the Novel has been dedicated to discovering ever more discriminating ways of conveying the complexities (дискриминационные способы передачи сложности) of human motivation. In the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, fiction seemed to have reached the ultimate extent (достигать максимальной / высшей степени) of such exploration in the novels of Henry James or Marcel Proust, writers for whom actual events became totally subordinate to (уступать по значимости) psychological exactitude. These novelists have deeply influenced later writers and readers. Subtlety of motivation is presumed to be a virtue of fiction (тонкость мотивации считается достоинством фантастики).

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