Character Constellations

Author : Roel Smeets
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789462702950

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Character Constellations by Roel Smeets Pdf

Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks that affects the representation of social groups: their centrality, their communities, and their conflicts. While reading individual novels in light of emerging statistical patterns, combining the formal methods of social network analysis with the interpretive tools of narratology, this study shows how central societal themes such as (in)equality and emancipation, integration and segregation, and social mobility and class struggle are foregrounded, replicated, or distorted in the Dutch novel. Showcasing what character-based critiques of literary representation gain by integrating data-driven methods into the practice of critical close reading, Character Constellations contributes to societal debates on cultural representation and identity and the role

Author : Jens Eder,Fotis Jannidis,Ralf Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110232417

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Characters in Fictional Worlds by Jens Eder,Fotis Jannidis,Ralf Schneider Pdf

Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today ́s diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character, spanning research on topics such as the differences between fictional characters and real persons, the ontological status of characters, the strategies of their representation and characterization, the psychology of their reception, as well as their specific forms and constellations in - and across - different media, from the book to the internet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : MSU:31293030470029

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Similarity of Personality Constellations of Alcoholics and Other Selected Hospitalized Groups by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Felsenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642690242

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Numerical Taxonomy by Joseph Felsenstein Pdf

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Numerical Taxonomy took place on the 4th - 16th of July, 1982, at the Kur- und Kongresshotel Residenz in Bad Windsheim, Federal Republic of Germany. This volume is the proceedings of that meeting, and contains papers by over two-thirds of the participants in the Institute. Numerical taxonomy has been attracting increased attention from systematists and evolutionary biologists. It is an area which has been marked by debate and conflict, sometimes bitter. Happily, this meeting took place in an atmosphere of "GemUtlichkeit", though scarcely of unanimity. I believe that these papers will show that there is an increased understanding by each taxonomic school of each others' positions. This augurs a period in which the debates become more concrete and specific. Let us hope that they take place in a scientific atmosphere which has occasionally been lacking in the past. Since the order of presentation of papers in the meeting was affected by time constraints, I have taken the liberty of rearranging them into a more coherent subject ordering. The first group of papers, taken from the opening and closing days of the meeting, debate philosophies of classification. The next two sections have papers on congruence, clustering and ordination. A notable concern of these participants is the comparison and testing of classifications. This has been missing from many previous discussions of numerical classification.

Author : Johannes Riis,Aaron Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429749162

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Screening Characters by Johannes Riis,Aaron Taylor Pdf

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing multifaceted accounts of the nature of screen characters, contributions are organized around a series of important subjects, including issues of class, race, ethics, and generic types as they are encountered in moving image media. These topics, in turn, are personified by such memorable figures as Cary Grant, Jon Hamm, Audrey Hepburn, and Seul-gi Kim, in addition to avatars, online personalities, animated characters, and the ensembles of shows such as The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.

Author : Rasmus Greiner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030705909

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Cinematic Histospheres by Rasmus Greiner Pdf

In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, such as Vivian Sobchack’s phenomenology of film experience, with historiographic theories, such as Frank R. Ankersmit’s concept of historical experience. Building on this analysis, Greiner examines the spatial and temporal organization of historical films and presents discussions of mood and atmosphere, body and memory, and genre and historical consciousness. The analysis is based around three historical films, spanning six decades, that depict 1950s Germany: Helmut Käutner’s Sky Without Stars (1955), Jutta Brückner’s Years of Hunger (1980), and Sven Bohse’s three-part TV series Ku’damm 56 (2016).

Author : Alex Inkeles
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412829311

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National Character by Alex Inkeles Pdf

Seen in modern perspective, the concept of national character poses fundamental problems for social science theory and research: To what extent do conditions of life in a particular society give rise to certain patterns in the personalities of its members? What are the consequences? Alex Inkeles surveys various definitions of national character, tracing developments through the twentieth century. His approach is to examine the regularity of specific personality patterns among individuals in a society. He argues that modal personality may be extremely important in determining which new cultural elements are accepted and which institutional forms persist in a society. Reviewing previous studies, Inkeles canvasses the attitudes and psychological states of different nations in an effort to discover a set of values in the United States. He concludes that, despite recent advances in the field, there is much to be done before we can have a clear picture of the degree of differentiation in the personality structure of modern nations. Until now, there were few formal definitions and discussions on national character and the limits of this field of study. This book will be of great interest to psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and political theorists.

Author : Robert E. Hooberman
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 076570353X

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Character Transformation Through the Psychotherapeutic Relationship by Robert E. Hooberman Pdf

Shows how therapists can help individuals suffering from character disorders. Views their symptoms as an attempt to cope with inner and external pain. Through a safe and respectable therapeutic relationship, they can transform their unhappy character traits and personality disorders into a less painful stance toward the world.

Author : Julia Genz,Ulrike Küchler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443887670

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Metamorphoses of (New) Media by Julia Genz,Ulrike Küchler Pdf

The current success story of new media and the ongoing digitalisation of our world provide an illuminating starting point for the discussion of the powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a(ny) ‘new’ medium: how do new media evolve and how do they relate to established, ‘old’ media and media uses? What does the rise of new media and media uses imply for other discourses? And not least: which methodological and theoretical approaches help us to understand these developments? Metamorphoses of (New) Media offers an international and interdisciplinary range of studies on these questions. In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection engage with a great variety of examples, from political debate on Twitter to digital storytelling and the game-like experience of DVDs. What these diverse perspectives share, however, is an approach to Metamorphoses of (New) Media as an ongoing, recursive process of change that initiates dialogue and casts light on existing discursive, medial, and aesthetic models.

Author : Bünyamin Yuvarlak
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783346371843

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Tennessee Williams’s Female Characters: Problems of Gender and Sexuality by Bünyamin Yuvarlak Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Romanistik der RWTH Aachen), language: English, abstract: The goal of the paper is to identify features relating to homosexual identity, based on a characterization of Williams’s female characters. Among other studies, Tennessee Williams’s work has commonly been researched from a gay study perspective by literary scholars and queer theorists. The motive for that was mostly Williams’s own homosexuality and the stigma that surrounded the issue around the time he published his most famous pieces. He has written plays which explicitly involve the topic of homosexuality, as the eminent Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but most of his work does not embrace homosexuality precisely. Nevertheless, on the grounds that literary studies is fairly limitless, for literature provides many different fields for analyses, it is possible to involve literary pieces into the field of gay studies, even though it initially does not specify the matter. The arguably most interesting element in Tennessee Williams’s drama are his characters, many of whom seem to share similar characteristics as struggling individuals. Analyzing the fictional characters with regard to gay writing could help find a possible pattern, draw conclusions about the influence of Williams’s personality, and thus, support the assumption that homosexuality is integrated in his plays. Gender is also fundamental for an approach based on sexuality. Taking that into consideration, below, the focus will be on Williams’s female characters, especially on the protagonists Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie and Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire. These women are not necessarily gay themselves; in the plays, there is no clear evidence about them being sexually or romantically attracted to the same sex. Instead, sexuality is a broad concept with more meanings attached to it, which will further be discussed in the third chapter.

Author : Michael A. Slote
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000073423

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Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism by Michael A. Slote Pdf

Originally published in 1985 and now re-issued with a new preface, this study assesses the two major moral theories of ethical consequentialism and common-sense morality by means of mutual comparison and an attempt to elicit the implications and tendencies of each theory individually. The author shows that criticisms and defences of common-sense morality and of consequentialism give inadequate characterizations of the dispute between them and thus at best provide incomplete rationales for either of these influential moral views. Both theories face inherent difficulties, some familiar but others mentioned for the first time in this work. The argument proceeds by reference to historical figures like Bentham, Ross and Sidgwick and to contemporary thinkers such as Williams, Nagel, Hare and Sen.

Author : Clarissa Vierke
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643800893

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On the Poetics of the Utendi by Clarissa Vierke Pdf

Originally published as author's thesis (doctoral)--BIGSAS, Bayreuth, 2009.

Author : Sven Rank
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631601743

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Twentieth-century Adaptations of Macbeth by Sven Rank Pdf

The book traces individuals' adaptive interventions in the cultural sphere. More specifically, it investigates the purposes of dramatic adapting, which is basically regarded as a political activity. Following the intense micropolitical combat of an author with the precursor Shakespeare, adaptation becomes comprehensible as part of the ceaseless motions of macrocultural change. At each adaptation's centre, an individual subject's identity act encounters external discourses, and these transform each other and destabilise ideologies. Moreover, they lay siege to the cultural powerhouse Shakespeare. The book thus explores adapters' revolt against the loop of eternal repetition, which is created by canonic forces. In order to do so, the author uses an innovative combination of standard theories.

Author : Nóra Kerekes,Anja C. Huizink,Anette Christina Ekström-Bergström
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832539743

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Complementary Care to Promote Mental Health by Nóra Kerekes,Anja C. Huizink,Anette Christina Ekström-Bergström Pdf

Author : Andreas Hamburger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040021057

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Film Psychoanalysis by Andreas Hamburger Pdf

Through the development of psychoanalytically informed film interpretation, Andreas Hamburger provides new insights into the experience of watching films and their influence upon our internal lives. Building upon a relational understanding of psychoanalysis, this volume develops a methodical procedure for psychoanalytical film interpretation, discusses individual aspects of the medium – such as editing, spatial and temporal design – and puts approaches to film psychoanalysis and cinema theory into a systematic perspective. Hamburger exemplifies his arguments in a detailed analysis of numerous film examples and demonstrates how an in-depth encounter with the medium can provoke new and surprising understandings. Providing an interdisciplinary perspective that crosses the study of popular culture with psychoanalytic theory, this book will be required reading not only for students and scholars of film, but also for psychoanalysts in practice and training.