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)

• Henry James via concept surface "literary critic"
• Vladimir Dubrovsky via concept surface "literary character"
• Philo via concept surface "literary character"
• Demea via concept surface "literary character"
• Natty Bumppo via concept surface "literary character"
• Antonio Maraini via concept surface "cultural figure"
• Kristin Lavransdatter (fictional character by Sigrid Undset) via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Kristin Lavransdatter
• N. P. van Wyk Louw via concept surface "literary theorist"
• Robin Stokes via concept surface "literary character"
• Dr. Samuel Hopkins via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Dr. Samuel Hopkins (fictional character)
• Jenkins via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov via concept surface "literary character"
• John H. Brockman via concept surface "literary agent"
• José Arcadio Buendía via concept surface "literary character"
• Úrsula Iguarán via concept surface "literary character"
• Remedios the Beauty via concept surface "literary character"
• Aureliano Babilonia via concept surface "literary character"
• Joe Trace via concept surface "literary character"
• Violet Trace via concept surface "literary character"
• Christine via concept surface "literary character"
• Junior via concept surface "literary character"
• L via concept surface "literary character"
• Heed Cosey via concept surface "literary character"
• Frank Money via concept surface "literary character"
• Gertrudis via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Jack Irish via concept surface "literary character"
• Edward Prendick via concept surface "literary character"
• Leopard-man via concept surface "literary character"
• Hyena-swine via concept surface "literary character"
• Alice Vavasor via concept surface "literary character"
• Mrs. Prime via concept surface "literary character"
• Katerina Mikhailovna Maslova via concept surface "literary character"
• Aureliano Buendía via concept surface "literary character"
• Amaranta via concept surface "literary character"
• Bill Cosey via concept surface "literary character"
• Junior Viviane via concept surface "literary character"
• Lord Lufton via concept surface "literary character"
• George Vavasor via concept surface "literary character"
• Madame de Staël via concept surface "literary critic"
• Grand Lunar via concept surface "literary character"
• Julio Desnoyers via concept surface "literary character"