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  title info:
    title: Character as form
  name:
    name part: Kunin, Aaron B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 242 pages ; 20 cm.
  abstract: 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.'
  table of contents: Many is not more than one -- Banish the world -- What fiction means -- The wish to be an object.
  note: Aaron Kunin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-228) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Characters and characteristics in literature
  subject:
    topic: Literary form
    topic: History
  classification: PN56.4 .K86 2019
  classification: 809/.927
  identifier: 9781474222716
  identifier: 1474222714
  identifier: 9781474222723
  identifier: 1474222722
  identifier: 9781474222686
  identifier: 9781474222693
  identifier: 2018030389
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181008
    record change date: 20190718165222.0
    record identifier: in00004077969