Character as Form

Aaron Kunin

ISBN 10: 1474222722 / ISBN 13: 9781474222723

Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Mär 2019, 2019

Riguardo questo articolo

Neuware - 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.'.

Codice articolo 9781474222723

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Character as Form
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Mär 2019
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474222722
• ISBN 13: 9781474222723
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 196 L x 130 A x 20 P (millimetri) 196 millimetri di larghezza per 130 millimetri di altezza per 20 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 272 grammi

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

An innovative new study of the concept of 'character' in literature, films and comics that draws upon a more personal and reflective mode of literary criticism.

Informazioni sull?autore

Aaron Kunin is Associate Professor of English, Pomona College, USA. He is the author of two books of poetry, Folding Ruler Star: Poems (2005) and The Sore Throat and Other Poems (2010) and a novel, The Mandarin (2008).