VEROSIMILITUD Y COHERENCIA DEL PERSONAJE. CARACTERIZACIÓN SEMÁNTICA DEL MUNDO POSIBLE DE CHARLES RYDER EN BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, DE EVELYN WAUGH

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Abstract

This article explores the semantic traces that provide verisimilitude and coherence in the depiction of characters, in particular, that of the main character and narrator of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945), Charles Ryder. An extension of the theory of possible worlds to cover a wider range of character features or attitudes of experience, concretised in ethical, aesthetic and transcendent patterns, is proposed as a model of study. These patterns will be analysed through artistic textual creation. It will be shown how the semantic density of the character world is determined by a high concentration of meaning propositions that support and structure this world, so that it becomes comprehensible and meaningful to the reader.