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1 online resource. |
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Beyond criticism |
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Beyond criticism.
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| Summary |
"What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance were working with an ancient understanding of character as type. They thought the job of a character was to collect every example of a kind. 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. Reading backwards, using a personal canon of poems, novels, comics, and performances in theater and film, this book tests the old meaning of character against modern examples. The heart of the book is the character of the misanthrope, who, in Shakespeare's phrase, 'banishes the world'"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Many is not more than one -- Banish the world -- What fiction means -- The wish to be an object. |
| Note |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection (North America) |
| Subject |
Characters and characteristics in literature.
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Literary form -- History.
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Literature & literary studies.
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Literary theory.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Characters and characteristics in literature. (OCoLC)fst00852295
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Literary form. (OCoLC)fst00999924
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kunin, Aaron B. Character as form. London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 9781474222716 (DLC) 2018030389 |
| ISBN |
9781474222693 (ePDF) |
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9781474222686 (electronic book) |
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9781474222709 (online) |
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