Character as Form by Kunin, Aaron

Character as Form (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474222716)

Vendor: Aaron Kunin
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$120.00
$120.00
$120.00
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Character as Form by Kunin, Aaron

Character as Form

$120.00
Character as Form by Kunin, Aaron

Character as Form

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.+?

Author: Aaron Kunin
ISBN-10: 1474222714
ISBN-13: 9781474222716
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63d
By Aaron Kunin
By Aaron Kunin
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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).

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