Name: Character as Form
SKU: 58540515
Price: 4858.00 TWD
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Author: Kunin, Aaron
ISBN: 9781474222716

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Author

Aaron Kunin

Publisher

Continnuum-3PL

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.3x12.7x1.6 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781474222716

Synopsis "Character as Form"

What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of a character was to collect every example of a kind, in the same way that an entry in a dictionary collects definitions of a word. Character as Form celebrates the old meaning of character. The advantage of the old meaning is that it allows for generalization. Characters funnel whole societies of beings into shapes that are compact, elegant, and portable. This book tests the old meaning of character against modern examples from poems, novels, comics, and performances in theater and film by Shakespeare, Molière, Austen, the Marx Brothers, Raul Ruiz, Denton Welch, and Lynda Barry. The heart of the book is the character of the misanthrope, who, in Shakespeare's phrase, "banishes the world.+?

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