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)

• Eliza Harris via concept surface "literary character"
• Lady Holy Church via concept surface "literary character"
• Conscience via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Conscience (Piers Plowman)
• Mama Elena via concept surface "literary character"
• Hyginus via concept surface "Latin author"
• Johann Gottfried Herder via concept surface "literary critic"
• Everyman via concept surface "literary character type"
• Ram Singh via concept surface "literary character"
• Joseph Conrad via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Allie Caulfield via concept surface "literary character"
• Abraham Van Brunt via concept surface "literary character"
• Zorro via concept surface "literary character"
• György Lukács via concept surface "literary critic"
• Rassilon via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Abrams via concept surface "literary critic"
  surface form: Meyer Howard Abrams
• King Shahryar via concept surface "literary character"
• Ali Baba via concept surface "folk tale character"
• Camerlengo Patrick McKenna via concept surface "literary character"
• Mordaunt via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Mark Darcy (Bridget Jones)
• Fernando Pessoa via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Charles Maurras via concept surface "literary critic"
• Morgiana via concept surface "literary character"
• Dinarzad via concept surface "literary character"
• Ralph Ellison via concept surface "literary critic"
• Pablo Neruda via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Caroline Schelling
• Dovid Bergelson via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Tevfik Fikret via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Jack Sprat via concept surface "literary character"
• Ki no Tsurayuki via concept surface "literary critic"
• Marylou via concept surface "literary character"
• Vogon via concept surface "literary character type"
• Zora Neale Hurston via concept surface "key figure of the Harlem Renaissance"
• Mario Vargas Llosa via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Tita de la Garza via concept surface "literary character"
• Bernard Lazare via concept surface "literary critic"
• Missy via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Squire Bracebridge via concept surface "literary character"
• Grigol Robakidze via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Inspector Olivetti via concept surface "literary character"
• Buckthorne via concept surface "literary character"
• Rosaura via concept surface "literary character"
• Maya Angelou via concept surface "African American writer"
• Abdulrazak Gurnah via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Knifehead via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Sam Spade via concept surface "literary character"
• Philip Marlowe via concept surface "literary character"
• A. S. Byatt via concept surface "literary critic"
• Leigh Hunt via concept surface "literary critic"