Character Studies

Author : Mark Singer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618773633

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Character Studies by Mark Singer Pdf

In these characteristically incisive essays, Mark Singer profiles eccentrics, monomaniacs, and other remarkable people he thinks we ought to meet. He takes us into the worlds of the sleight-of-hand master Ricky Jay, the ardent bibliophile Michael Zinman, and better-known personalities such as the entrepreneur Donald Trump and the meticulous filmmaker Martin Scorsese. He interviews a devoted fan of the cowboy movie star Tom Mix and a group of Texans who are determined to recover the skull of Pancho Villa from Yale's Skull and Bones society, among others. A riveting tour of obsession, Character Studies reveals the passions that drive the ordinary, the quirky, and the truly, fanatically fixated.

Author : Hunt, et al
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802873927

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Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel by Hunt, et al Pdf

Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John. These essays present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others), but they also examine characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis (the men of the Samaritan woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more). Taken together, the essays shed new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew.

Author : Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000860443

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Transmedia Character Studies by Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde Pdf

Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media. This highly innovative work offers new perspectives on how to interrelate production discourses, media texts, and reception discourses, and how to select a suitable research corpus for the discussion of characters whose serial appearances stretch across years, decades, or even centuries. Each chapter starts from a different notion of how fictional characters can be considered, tracing character theories and models to approach character representations from perspectives developed in various disciplines and fields. This book will enable graduate students and scholars of transmedia studies, film, television, comics studies, video game studies, popular culture studies, fandom studies, narratology, and creative industries to conduct comprehensive, media-conscious analyses of characters across a variety of media.

Author : Matthew Ryan Hauge,Craig Evan Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699497

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Character Studies in the Gospel of Matthew by Matthew Ryan Hauge,Craig Evan Anderson Pdf

This volume examines a multitude of characters in Matthew's gospel and provides an in-depth look at the different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods. Beginning with an introduction on 'the properties of character' and the several aspects involved in the creation of person, the contributors provide a close reading of numerous characters and character types in the Gospel of Matthew. Including Mary, King Herod, John the Baptist, Jesus the Preacher, Jesus the Teacher, God the Father, the Roman Centurion, Peter, Women, Gentiles, Scribes and Pharisees, and Romans. Such close studies aid the understanding of different issues in Matthean characterization, while also charting the development of hermeneutical vistas that have developed in contemporary scholarship, resulting in a collection of exegetical character studies that are self-consciously working from a literary, narrative-critical, reader-oriented, or related methodology.

Author : Matthew Ryan Hauge,Christopher W. Skinner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567360816

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Character Studies and the Gospel of Mark by Matthew Ryan Hauge,Christopher W. Skinner Pdf

Characters in the Second Gospel are analysed and an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods of analysis is provided. The first section consists of essays on method/theory, and the second consists of seven exegetical character studies using a literary or reader-oriented method. All contributors work from a literary, narrative-critical, reader-oriented, or related methodology. The book summarizes the state of the discussion and examines obstacles to arriving at a comprehensive theory of character in the Second Gospel. Specific contributions include analyses of the representation of women, God, Jesus, Satan, Gentiles, and the Roman authorities of Mark's Gospel. This work is both an exploration of theories of character, and a study in the application of those theories.

Author : Manly Palmer Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125800870X

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Studies in Character Analysis by Manly Palmer Hall Pdf

Includes Phrenology, Palmistry, Physiognomy, Graphology.

Author : James RANKIN (Minister of Muthill.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026402746

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Character Studies in the Old Testament by James RANKIN (Minister of Muthill.) Pdf

Author : Amanda Anderson,Rita Felski,Toril Moi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226658667

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Character by Amanda Anderson,Rita Felski,Toril Moi Pdf

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.

Author : Christian B. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190264222

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The Character Gap by Christian B. Miller Pdf

We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as pretty decent people. We may not be saints, but we are basically good, fairly honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. 0One of the central themes of 'The Character Gap' is that we are badly mistaken in thinking this way. In recent years, hundreds of psychological studies have been done which tell a rather different story. We have serious character flaws that prevent us from being good people, many of which we do not even recognize in ourselves. Does this mean that instead we are wretched people, vicious, cruel or hateful? Christian Miller does not argue that this is necessarily the case either.

Author : Amy Bonnaffons
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316516204

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The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons Pdf

For fans of George Saunders and Karen Russell, an "amazing, wildly inventive" collection of stories that straddles the line between the real and the fantastical (Kevin Wilson). In The Wrong Heaven, anything is possible: bodies can transform, inanimate objects come to life, angels appear and disappear. Bonnaffons draws us into a delightfully strange universe, in which her conflicted characters seek to solve their sexual and spiritual dilemmas in all the wrong places. The title story's heroine reckons with grief while arguing with loquacious Jesus and Mary lawn ornaments that come to life when she plugs them in. In Horse, we enter a world in which women transform themselves into animals through a series of medical injections. In Alternate, a young woman convinces herself that all she needs to revive a stagnant relationship is the perfect poster of the Dalai Lama. While some of the worlds to which Bonnaffons transports us are more recognizable than others, all of them uncover the mysteries beneath the mundane surfaces of our lives. Enormously funny, boldly inventive, and as provocative as they are deeply affecting, these stories lay bare the heart of our deepest longings. Including the story Horse, as heard on This American Life.

Author : Peter Scazzero
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830863129

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Old Testament Characters by Peter Scazzero Pdf

Abraham is an unforgettable figure of faith. Daniel is a classic example of holiness. And through her willingness to risk her own life, Esther shows us what commitment means. This twelve-session LifeGuide® Bible Study introduces you to twelve remarkable lives described in the Old Testament. The stories of these people from the ancient past can help you learn to live well even today. This LifeGuide Bible Study in IVP Connect's revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a "Now or Later" section following each session to help you act on what you learn. PDF download with a single-user license; available from InterVarsity Press and other resellers. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.

Author : Christopher Peterson,Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0198037333

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Character Strengths and Virtues by Christopher Peterson,Martin E. P. Seligman Pdf

"Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do, but a more active and thorough definition is necessary, one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual, or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we define it--exist in degrees, or is it simply something one happens to have? How can character be developed? Can it be learned? Relatedly, can it be taught, and who might be the most effective teacher? What roles are played by family, schools, the media, religion, and the larger culture? This groundbreaking handbook of character strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers who have undertaken the systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. They approach good character in terms of separate strengths-authenticity, persistence, kindness, gratitude, hope, humor, and so on-each of which exists in degrees. Character Strengths and Virtues classifies twenty-four specific strengths under six broad virtues that consistently emerge across history and culture: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each strength is thoroughly examined in its own chapter, with special attention to its meaning, explanation, measurement, causes, correlates, consequences, and development across the life span, as well as to strategies for its deliberate cultivation. This book demands the attention of anyone interested in psychology and what it can teach about the good life.

Author : W. Pinar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137015839

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The Character of Curriculum Studies by W. Pinar Pdf

Assembles essays addressing the recurring question of the 'subject,' understood both as human person and school subject, thereby elaborating the subjective and disciplinary character of curriculum studies.

Author : Priya Parmar
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385681346

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Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar Pdf

It can break your heart to have a sister like Virginia Woolf. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of bright, outrageous artistic friends who will grow into legend and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. And at the center of this charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success eventually, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative, and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must decide if it is finally time to protect her own happiness above all else. The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.

Author : Thomas Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781408163580

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Dan and the Dead by Thomas Taylor Pdf

Dan can see ghosts. See them, speak to them, and sometimes help them - for a price. Dan and his ghostly sidekick Simon (who took a bullet in the brain a few hundred years ago) help the unquiet dead solve their problems and move on to wherever they go. But when they take on the case of a teenage shoplifter, things start to spin out of control. Soon Dan is up against a very dangerous and very badly dressed gangster, and he's also got to cope with a rather unusual vicar, the ghost of a Victorian stage magician who cut off his own head (don't ask) and a spot of grave robbing. It's all in a night's work...