literary figure
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concept
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)
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Otter
via concept surface "literary character"
surface form: Otter (The Wind in the Willows)
- Chief Weasel via concept surface "literary character"
- Muff Potter via concept surface "literary character"
- Rat via concept surface "literary character"
- Judge Thatcher via concept surface "literary character"
- D. H. Lawrence via concept surface "literary critic"
- Fedallah via concept surface "literary character"
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Claudius
via concept surface "Roman author"
surface form: Claudius Aelianus
- George Henry Lewes via concept surface "literary critic"
- Jean-Paul Sartre via concept surface "literary critic"
- Isabella via concept surface "literary character"
- Maksim Gorky via concept surface "socialist realist writer"
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Iago
via concept surface "literary character"
surface form: Iago (Shakespeare character)
- James Russell Lowell via concept surface "literary critic"
- Mary via concept surface "literary character"
- María via concept surface "literary character"
- Pilar via concept surface "literary character"
- Miles Hendon via concept surface "literary character"
- Bertilak de Hautdesert via concept surface "literary character"
- Lady Bertilak via concept surface "literary character"
- Antonio Tabucchi via concept surface "literary scholar"
- Martin via concept surface "literary character"
- Janie Crawford via concept surface "literary character"
- Tea Cake via concept surface "literary character"
- Joe Starks via concept surface "literary character"
- Cesare via concept surface "literary character"
- Askia Touré via concept surface "African American writer"
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. via concept surface "literary critic"
- Hester Prynne via concept surface "literary character"
- Arthur Dimmesdale via concept surface "literary character"
- Daisy Buchanan via concept surface "literary character"
- Myrtle Wilson via concept surface "literary character"
- Owl Eyes via concept surface "literary character"
- Sethe via concept surface "literary character"
- Denver via concept surface "literary character"
- Sal Paradise via concept surface "literary character"
- Carlo Marx via concept surface "literary character"
- Old Bull Lee via concept surface "literary character"
- Bella Swan via concept surface "literary character"
- Djuna Barnes via concept surface "modernist writer"
- Roger Chillingworth via concept surface "literary character"
- Pearl via concept surface "literary character"
- Nick Carraway via concept surface "literary character"
- Jordan Baker via concept surface "literary character"
- Paul D via concept surface "literary character"
- Baby Suggs via concept surface "literary character"
- Tom Buchanan via concept surface "literary character"
- Isaac D'Israeli via concept surface "literary historian"
- Sid via concept surface "literary character"
- George Wilson via concept surface "literary character"