Author: George Mackenzie
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation
Author: George Mackenzie
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Character
Author: Amanda Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665883X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion force critics to embrace humanism and outmoded theories of the subject? Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reimagine and renew literary studies by engaging in a conversation about character. Moi returns to the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to stop doing character-criticism, and shows that they cannot hold. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands, as well as its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character-criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters, and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665883X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion force critics to embrace humanism and outmoded theories of the subject? Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reimagine and renew literary studies by engaging in a conversation about character. Moi returns to the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to stop doing character-criticism, and shows that they cannot hold. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands, as well as its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character-criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters, and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies.
Science and Key of Life
Author: Alvidas
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Astrology for All
Author: Alan Leo
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Physiognomy Illustrated, Or, Nature's Revelations of Character
Author: Joseph Simms
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages
Author: James Olm
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350199362
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn't work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why? How do you differentiate between a flaw in the performance portrayal of a character to a structural flaw in the musical itself? How do you analyse musical theatre songs that are so subjective in its very nature? Is there even a common link of analysis between musicals from the Golden Age and musicals from the present day? Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages answers these questions and gives students of musical theatre the tools they need to understand and articulate how musicals work. At the heart of any musical lie its music and lyrics, yet it is this area that is least understood. This book offers a brand new terminology of analysis that gets to the core of what holds a musical together: the libretto, music, and lyrics. Through identifying methods of lyric and musical analysis and applying these to ten different musicals throughout history, students are able to ask questions such as: why does this song sound this way?; what is this lyric doing to identify character purpose?; and how is a character communicating this feeling to an audience? From classroom analysis through to practical application, this text guides readers through a structured approach to understanding, disseminating and more importantly, articulating how a musical works. A perfect tool for students of musical theatre, its practical benefits of understanding the form, and realizing that it can be applied to any age musical, will benefit any theatre person in helping articulate all of those abstract feelings that are inherent in this art form. It offers a roadmap to the musical's innermost DNA.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350199362
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn't work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why? How do you differentiate between a flaw in the performance portrayal of a character to a structural flaw in the musical itself? How do you analyse musical theatre songs that are so subjective in its very nature? Is there even a common link of analysis between musicals from the Golden Age and musicals from the present day? Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages answers these questions and gives students of musical theatre the tools they need to understand and articulate how musicals work. At the heart of any musical lie its music and lyrics, yet it is this area that is least understood. This book offers a brand new terminology of analysis that gets to the core of what holds a musical together: the libretto, music, and lyrics. Through identifying methods of lyric and musical analysis and applying these to ten different musicals throughout history, students are able to ask questions such as: why does this song sound this way?; what is this lyric doing to identify character purpose?; and how is a character communicating this feeling to an audience? From classroom analysis through to practical application, this text guides readers through a structured approach to understanding, disseminating and more importantly, articulating how a musical works. A perfect tool for students of musical theatre, its practical benefits of understanding the form, and realizing that it can be applied to any age musical, will benefit any theatre person in helping articulate all of those abstract feelings that are inherent in this art form. It offers a roadmap to the musical's innermost DNA.
The Lancet
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Nature's revelations of character, or, the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance
Author: Joseph Simms
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Prison Characters Drawn from Life. With Suggestions for Prison Government. By a Prison Matron, Etc
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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