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Character as Form

Character as Form

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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."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2019-03-07
Publication Date:
2019-03-07
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1474222722
ISBN13:
9781474222723
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
270 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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