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Tess Crain 3/8/19 Tess Crain 3/8/19

The Essence of Another: On the Convention of Eliding Names in Fiction

The literary device of eliding proper names of course predates Clarice Lispector (“Interrupted Story” was originally published in 1942).

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The Essence of Another: On the Convention of Eliding Names in Fiction

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