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Character as Form (Hardcover)
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Character as Form (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, Moliere, 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."
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