Pulp characters function as mythos carriers rather than rounded persons

Evidence

It is often said that Roman Totale is one of Smith’s “alter-egos”; in fact, Smith is in the same relationship to Totale as Lovecraft was to someone like Randolph Carter. Totale is a character rather than a persona. Needless to say, he is not a character in the “well-rounded” Forsterian sense so much as a carrier of mythos, an inter-textual linkage between pulp fragments. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1144

Categorization

• DEFINE: The persona-alter-ego versus character-carrier-of-mythos distinction is a genuine conceptual clarification.
• XREF: connects to: Pulp modernism builds a shared mythos-space rather than discrete authored texts — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1145; Hassan functions as sacrificial archetype rather than an individuated character — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 259; Narrative categories like character and plot are the form of content, not content itself — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6030

Broader Connections

• Hassan functions as sacrificial archetype rather than an individuated character #exemplifies (0.92) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 259
• Narrative categories like character and plot are the form of content, not content itself #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6030