literary figure

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.

Observed surface forms (43)

• literary character ×224
• literary critic ×62
• Fictional character ×18
• Nobel laureate in Literature ×13
• modernist writer ×13
• Harlem Renaissance figure ×6
• African American writer ×4
• Latin writer ×4
• Literary character ×4
• cultural figure ×4

• literary scholar ×4
• Latin author ×3
• Nobel Prize laureate in Literature ×3
• Roman author ×3
• Russian writer ×3
• literary agent ×3
• literary character type ×3
• literary theorist ×3
• child character in literature ×2
• folk tale character ×2
• literary historian ×2
• literary persona ×2
• short story character ×2
• Arthurian literature author ×1
• Beat Generation figure ×1
• Character in literature ×1
• Fireside Poet ×1
• Hebrew-language writer ×1
• Renaissance writer ×1
• Symbolist writer ×1
• Victorian-era writer ×1
• character in Plato's dialogues ×1
• character in literature ×1
• classical Kannada writer ×1
• drama character ×1
• key figure of the Harlem Renaissance ×1
• literary elite ×1
• literary modernist ×1
• modernist author ×1
• pioneer of modern Hebrew literature ×1
• pioneer of modern Yiddish literature ×1
• socialist realist writer ×1
• symbolist author ×1

Instances (391)

• Robin Hood via concept surface "literary character"
• character Holly Golightly via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Holly Golightly
• Clarice Starling via concept surface "literary character"
• Beatrice DeMille via concept surface "literary agent"
• Abyssinian maid with a dulcimer via concept surface "literary character"
• Sinbad the Sailor via concept surface "literary character"
• Lytton Strachey via concept surface "literary critic"
• E. M. Forster via concept surface "literary critic"
• Hallvard Lie via concept surface "literary historian"
• Irving Babbitt via concept surface "literary critic"
• Bertie Wooster via concept surface "literary character"
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak via concept surface "literary theorist"
• Christopher Hitchens via concept surface "literary critic"
• Heinrich Heine via concept surface "literary critic"
• Edward Said via concept surface "literary critic"
• Felicity Blunt via concept surface "literary agent"
• Walter Benjamin via concept surface "literary critic"
• T. S. Eliot via concept surface "literary critic"
• Patricia Spence via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
  surface form: Bertrand Russell
• Noddy via concept surface "literary character"
• Harriet Jacobs via concept surface "African American writer"
• Sid Sawyer via concept surface "literary character"
• Alexander Pope via concept surface "literary critic"
• Princess Ozma via concept surface "literary character"
• Margaret Atwood via concept surface "literary critic"
• Bernadine Harris via concept surface "literary character"
• Palmer Joss via concept surface "literary character"
• Kenzaburō Ōe via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Duke of Buckingham via concept surface "literary character"
• Leo Tolstoy via concept surface "Russian writer"
• the Autocrat via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: The Autocrat
• Lolita Pulido via concept surface "literary character"
• William Cullen Bryant via concept surface "literary critic"
• René François Armand Prudhomme via concept surface "Nobel Prize laureate in Literature"
• Johan Sebastian Welhaven via concept surface "literary critic"
• Naguib Mahfouz via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Virgil via concept surface "Latin author"
• Livy via concept surface "Roman author"
• Dancer via concept surface "literary character"
• Baltus Van Tassel via concept surface "literary character"
• Pap Finn via concept surface "literary character"
• Widow Douglas via concept surface "literary character"
• Hank Morgan via concept surface "literary character"
• Rudolph via concept surface "literary character"
• Mirza Ghalib
• Stéphane Mallarmé via concept surface "literary critic"
• Miss Watson via concept surface "literary character"
• Sandy via concept surface "literary character"
• Heimdall via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Peter Schlemihl via concept surface "literary character"