Flat Protagonists: A Theory of Novel CharacterWe've all encountered protagonists who, over the course of a novel, turn out to be more complicated than we thought at first. But what does one do with a major character who simplifies as a novel progresses, to the point where even this novel's other characters begin to disregard him? Flat Protagonists shows that writers have undertaken such formal experiments which give rise to its titular flat protagonists since the novel's incipience. It finds such