{"product_id":"character-as-form-aaron-kunin-9781474222716","title":"Character as Form","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharacter as Form\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.+?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron Kunin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474222714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474222716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continnuum-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Aaron Kunin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202903359743,"sku":"9781474222716","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95c53c2e-f7c9-4a6c-a4cf-d5d6ba868004.jpg?v=1756833747","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/character-as-form-aaron-kunin-9781474222716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}