Character as Form

by Aaron Kunin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474222714
• ISBN13: 9781474222716
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"