literary figure

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A literary figure is a person, real or fictional, who plays a significant role in the creation, development, or representation of literature and its cultural impact.

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All labels observed (72)

Label	Occurrences
literary character	5,211
literary critic	556
Fictional character	503
literary scholar	110
Literary character	103
Nobel laureate in Literature	56
cultural figure	52
short story character	45
character in literature	44
literary theorist	40
modernist writer	38
literary figure canonical	31
literary agent	25
Latin writer	24
Russian writer	23
Harlem Renaissance figure	18
Renaissance writer	18
African American writer	17
literary historian	14
Hebrew-language writer	13
Nobel Prize laureate in Literature	10
child character in literature	10
man of letters	10
poetic character	10
Latin author	8
literary persona	8
character in La Comédie humaine	7
literary character type	7
Beat Generation figure	6
Roman author	5
Symbolist writer	5
literature professor	5
literary modernist	4
literary organizer	4
male literary character	4
modernist author	4
Bengali literary character	3
Victorian-era writer	3
character in Plato's dialogues	3
folk tale character	3
member of literary circle	3
Romanticism figure	2
character in American literature	2
character in poetry	2
drama character	2
key figure of the Harlem Renaissance	2
symbolist author	2
সাহিত্যিক চরিত্র	2
Arthurian literature author	1
Bengali literature character	1
Character in literature	1
English literary figure	1
Fireside Poet	1
classical Kannada writer	1
entity in literature	1
founder of literary school	1
leading figure of modern Chinese literature	1
literary addressee	1
literary advocate	1
literary character identity	1
literary depiction of a Jain Tirthankara	1
literary elite	1
literary role	1
pioneer of modern Hebrew literature	1
pioneer of modern Yiddish literature	1
promoter of literature	1
socialist realist writer	1
symbolist writer	1
литературный критик	1
সাহিত্যিক	1
ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯಿಕ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ	1
文学者	1

Instances (6,918)

Instance	Via concept surface
Jake Peralta	Fictional character
Chick Counterfly	literary character
Darby Suckling	literary character
Jelly Otis	literary character
Miles Blundell	literary character
Hermann in The Queen of Spades surface form: Hermann (The Queen of Spades)	literary character
Grace Melbury	literary character
John of Salisbury	Latin writer
Pantelei Melekhov	literary character
Sonia Ganguli	literary character
Stephen Scobie	literary critic
Natallia Arsenneva	cultural figure
Jean Tarrou	literary character
Joseph Grand	literary character
Raymond Rambert	literary character
Jean-Baptiste Clamence	literary character
Jan	literary character
Sarah Little	literary character
Dr. Simon Ziegler	Fictional character
Kate Leslie	literary character
General Cipriano Viedma	literary character
Lucille Saywell	literary character
Paul surface form: Paul (The Rocking-Horse Winner)	literary character
Hester	literary character
Uncle Oscar	literary character
Bassett	literary character
Elizabeth Bates	literary character
Walter Bates	literary character
John Bates	literary character
Kenneth Rexroth	literary critic
Sabbath Lily	literary character
Dick Hunter	literary character
Paul	literary character
Binker	literary character
Henry Mayhew	Victorian-era writer
Hop-o'-My-Thumb	folk tale character
Griselidis	literary character
Griseldis	literary character
Riquet	literary character
Thomas Luck	literary character
Ah Sin	literary character
Gabriel Conroy (fictional character) surface form: Gabriel Conroy	literary character
Mrs. Skaggs	literary character
Hephzibah Cass	literary character
Mr. Lammeter	literary character
Gertrude Morel	literary character
Walter Morel	literary character
Annie Morel	literary character
Gudrun Brangwen	literary character
Constance Chatterley	literary character