The New Science of Analyzing Character
Author: Harry Harvey Balkin
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 322
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Author: Harry Harvey Balkin
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kira-Anne Pelican
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2020-11-26
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1501357239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Science of Writing Characters is a comprehensive handbook to help writers create compelling and psychologically-credible characters that come to life on the page. Drawing on the latest psychological theory and research, ranging from personality theory to evolutionary science, the book equips screenwriters and novelists with all the techniques they need to build complex, dimensional characters from the bottom up. Writers learn how to create rounded characters using the 'Big Five' dimensions of personality and then are shown how these personality traits shape action, relationships and dialogue. Throughout The Science of Writing Characters, psychological theories and research are translated into handy practical tips, which are illustrated through examples of characters in action in well-known films, television series and novels, ranging from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and Game of Thrones to The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Goldfinch. This very practical approach makes the book an engaging and accessible companion guide for all writers who want to better understand how they can make memorable characters with the potential for global appeal.
Author: S. Pearl Brilmyer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-01-11
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0226815781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 1843, the Victorian political theorist John Stuart Mill outlined a new science, "the science of the formation of character." Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer shows that it survived in the work of Victorian novelists, who cultivated a narrative science of human nature. Brilmyer explores this characterological project in the work of such novelists as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner. Bringing to life Mill's unrealized dream of a science of character, Victorian realists used fiction to investigate the nature of embodied experience, how traits and behaviors in human and nonhuman organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic features-shapes, colors, and gestures-come to take on cultural meaning through certain categories, such as race and sex. In the hands of these authors, Brilmyer argues, literature became a science, not in the sense that its claims were falsifiable or even systematically articulated, but in its commitment to uncovering, through a fictional staging of realistic events, the universal laws governing human life. The Science of Character offers brilliant insights into important novels of the period, including Eliot's Middlemarch, and a fuller picture of English realism during the crucial span between 1870 and 1920"--
Author: Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 520
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynn Public Library (Mass.)
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 218
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