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)

• the Devil via concept surface "literary character"
• Aunt Sally Phelps via concept surface "literary character"
• Silas Phelps via concept surface "literary character"
• Jason Bourne via concept surface "literary character"
• Joel Elias Spingarn via concept surface "literary critic"
• Smaug via concept surface "literary character"
• Sancho Panza via concept surface "literary character"
• Desdemona (character) via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Desdemona
• Manolin via concept surface "literary character"
• Perico via concept surface "literary character"
• Gertrude Stein via concept surface "literary modernist"
• Margaret Fuller via concept surface "literary critic"
• Gandalf via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Amiri Baraka via concept surface "literary critic"
• James Joyce via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Rubin via concept surface "literary critic"
  surface form: Louis D. Rubin Jr.
• Aragorn via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Russell Kirk via concept surface "literary critic"
• Amy March via concept surface "literary character"
• U. R. Ananthamurthy via concept surface "literary critic"
• Daniel Cleaver via concept surface "literary character"
• David Caravaggio via concept surface "literary character"
• Atticus Finch via concept surface "literary character"
• Scarlett O'Hara via concept surface "literary character"
• Savannah Jackson via concept surface "literary character"
• Bridget Jones via concept surface "literary character"
• Kip via concept surface "literary character"
• Fitzwilliam Darcy via concept surface "literary character"
• Rhett Butler via concept surface "literary character"
• Ashley Wilkes via concept surface "literary character"
• The Scarecrow via concept surface "literary character"
• Wicked Witch of the West via concept surface "literary character"
• Gimli via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Philip Hensher via concept surface "literary critic"
• Pampa via concept surface "classical Kannada writer"
• The Tin Man via concept surface "literary character"
• The Cowardly Lion via concept surface "literary character"
• Hana via concept surface "literary character"
• Uncle Tom via concept surface "literary character"
• Eva St. Clare via concept surface "literary character"
• Mrs. Scudder via concept surface "literary character"
• The Wizard of Oz (character) via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: The Wizard of Oz
• Augustine St. Clare via concept surface "literary character"
• Topsy via concept surface "literary character"
• W.B. Yeats via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Random Dent via concept surface "literary character"
• Santiago via concept surface "literary character"
• Sully Prudhomme via concept surface "Nobel Prize laureate in Literature"
• Wallace Thurman via concept surface "literary critic"
• Crito via concept surface "character in Plato's dialogues"