Character as Form
earliest edition we have, 2019 Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 paperback 248 pages
"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. Chara...
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