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Polish term or phrase:
bohater zbiorowy
English translation:
an aggreggate protagonist/an ensemble of protagonists
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bohater zbiorowy
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Czytam "Far from true" or any other novel or where there is no one main character.
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an aggreggate protagonist/an ensemble of protagonists
In plural, an ensemble of protagonists is a collection of individuals. In singular, an aggreggate protagonist is a collective that acts as one organic whole.
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Where novels tend to focus on the narrative of a single protagonist (or an ensemble of protagonists) presented through a main plot interwoven with subplots, short story cycles often concern themselves with an aggregate “protagonist” (a family, a location, etc.), and are defined by the containment of their constituent stories, which each offer a sense of narrative closure, and are legible as complete stories even outside of the context of the cycle (themselves often finding publication in magazines, journals, and anthologies, both before and after their inclusions in cycles) (Nagel 13-17). J
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/1024...
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Where novels tend to focus on the narrative of a single protagonist (or an ensemble of protagonists) presented through a main plot interwoven with subplots, short story cycles often concern themselves with an aggregate “protagonist” (a family, a location, etc.), and are defined by the containment of their constituent stories, which each offer a sense of narrative closure, and are legible as complete stories even outside of the context of the cycle (themselves often finding publication in magazines, journals, and anthologies, both before and after their inclusions in cycles) (Nagel 13-17). J
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/1024...
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multiple main characters or no main character
My take on it.
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Note added at 7 mins (2016-10-22 21:26:25 GMT)
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Global Scriptwriting - Page 83 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=113604809X
Ken Dancyger - 2013 - Performing Arts
...It may mean multiple main characters or no main character. It will mean deploying narrative techniques that highlight voice and deepen the distancing ...
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative
Alternative Scriptwriting: Beyond the Hollywood Formula
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=024052246X
Ken Dancyger, Jeff Rush - 2013 - Performing Arts
...that there can be no main character, as in Culloden and The War Game. In each of these cases, the main character, generally, is presented without a goal, and ...
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Note added at 9 mins (2016-10-22 21:28:27 GMT)
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Multiple Lead Characters - How to Write a Book Now
www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/multiple-lead-characters.ht...
One of the main criticisms of the reviewer was the use of multiple main characters, which she didn't like. However, I can't see how to escape this when one is ...
Multiple main characters - How to Write a Book Now
www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/multiple-main-characters.ht...
Multiple main characters. by Marissa. Question: In my book I have like 5 or main characters depending on how you look at it because there's always at least 5 but ...
multiple main characters : Conversation question • Writing Forum ...
www.writersdigest.com › ... › Conversation question
Writer's Digest
Dec 14, 2011 - 10 posts - 2 authors
It depends how well the story is written. There are authors who can write from multiple points of view very well and I don't get lost. Though ...
Popular Multiple Main Characters Books - Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/.../multiple-main-characters
Goodreads
Books shelved as multiple-main-characters: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan, Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry, The Bad Beginning by Lemony ...
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I'm writing a novel about a family of seven. The novel is about the whole
https://www.writingclasses.com/.../im-writ...
Gotham Writers' Workshop Inc
Items 1 - 8 of 65 - Even in a novel with multiple main characters, you will want to set some limits. Is the novel focusing on the experience of all seven family ...
The Literary Lab: His or Her Story? Using Multiple Main Characters ...
literarylab.blogspot.com/2009/.../his-or-her-story-using-multiple-main.ht...
Jul 30, 2009 - I asked Davin if he had any good examples of novels that effectively use <>multiple main characters and story lines. He brought up Everything Is ...
How to approach writing a story with multiple main characters?
gointothestory.blcklst.com/.../reader-question-how-to-approach-writing-...
Nov 7, 2012 - Select Month. Select Month; October 2016 (95); September 2016 (178); August 2016 (151); July 2016 (162); June 2016 (185); May 2016 (189) ...
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Note added at 7 mins (2016-10-22 21:26:25 GMT)
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Global Scriptwriting - Page 83 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=113604809X
Ken Dancyger - 2013 - Performing Arts
...It may mean multiple main characters or no main character. It will mean deploying narrative techniques that highlight voice and deepen the distancing ...
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative
Alternative Scriptwriting: Beyond the Hollywood Formula
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=024052246X
Ken Dancyger, Jeff Rush - 2013 - Performing Arts
...that there can be no main character, as in Culloden and The War Game. In each of these cases, the main character, generally, is presented without a goal, and ...
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Note added at 9 mins (2016-10-22 21:28:27 GMT)
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Multiple Lead Characters - How to Write a Book Now
www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/multiple-lead-characters.ht...
One of the main criticisms of the reviewer was the use of multiple main characters, which she didn't like. However, I can't see how to escape this when one is ...
Multiple main characters - How to Write a Book Now
www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/multiple-main-characters.ht...
Multiple main characters. by Marissa. Question: In my book I have like 5 or main characters depending on how you look at it because there's always at least 5 but ...
multiple main characters : Conversation question • Writing Forum ...
www.writersdigest.com › ... › Conversation question
Writer's Digest
Dec 14, 2011 - 10 posts - 2 authors
It depends how well the story is written. There are authors who can write from multiple points of view very well and I don't get lost. Though ...
Popular Multiple Main Characters Books - Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/.../multiple-main-characters
Goodreads
Books shelved as multiple-main-characters: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan, Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry, The Bad Beginning by Lemony ...
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Note added at 10 mins (2016-10-22 21:29:41 GMT)
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I'm writing a novel about a family of seven. The novel is about the whole
https://www.writingclasses.com/.../im-writ...
Gotham Writers' Workshop Inc
Items 1 - 8 of 65 - Even in a novel with multiple main characters, you will want to set some limits. Is the novel focusing on the experience of all seven family ...
The Literary Lab: His or Her Story? Using Multiple Main Characters ...
literarylab.blogspot.com/2009/.../his-or-her-story-using-multiple-main.ht...
Jul 30, 2009 - I asked Davin if he had any good examples of novels that effectively use <>multiple main characters and story lines. He brought up Everything Is ...
How to approach writing a story with multiple main characters?
gointothestory.blcklst.com/.../reader-question-how-to-approach-writing-...
Nov 7, 2012 - Select Month. Select Month; October 2016 (95); September 2016 (178); August 2016 (151); July 2016 (162); June 2016 (185); May 2016 (189) ...
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collective main characters/protagonists
This narrative voice, along with the collective main characters—Sofi and her four daughters—whose shared story constitutes the plot of the novel, - https://goo.gl/mA3TDp
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