Portrait and Story: Dramaturgical Approaches to the Study of PersonsBloomsbury Academic, 26.03.1986 - 203 Seiten Seeking to restore a holistic approach to the study of the person, Professor Cochran explores and refines an innovative method of analysis based on the use of dramaturgical concepts. The author's approach reflects a dissatisfaction, shared by many in the field of personology, with the fragmented view of the person that typically emerges from quantitative, statistically based studies. His own method offers alternative ways of conducting research based upon two units. The first is story, a completed action or drama with a beginning, middle, and end. The other is position, a way of being or an emotional or existential condition. Showing these to be natural units of human experience, the author demonstrates, through a series of illustrative investigations, how they may be applied to research. Among the topics covered are the life plot, or the means by which a person comes into being, the meaning of significant action, how actions in a person's life form a theme with variations over time, and the integration of character and story. The author also discusses different life themes and their significance, and he tests the validity of dramatic principles as means of reality construction. |
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... concerned himself with their gratification , and had a nasty temper . His father stressed education and strove for their wel- fare , but , as Trollope said , was doomed to never have an am- bition realized . He was sick half of the time ...
... concerned himself with their gratification , and had a nasty temper . His father stressed education and strove for their wel- fare , but , as Trollope said , was doomed to never have an am- bition realized . He was sick half of the time ...
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... concerned with purpose . It assumes in- tentionality , and an intention requires framing in terms of what an agent had in mind . In the plot , intention is progressively re- fined . Initially , one seeks escape . When the negative state ...
... concerned with purpose . It assumes in- tentionality , and an intention requires framing in terms of what an agent had in mind . In the plot , intention is progressively re- fined . Initially , one seeks escape . When the negative state ...
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... concerned with everyday life like the moral of a fable . Consider Christ's death on the cross . The theme might be formulated as this : If you threaten those in authority too much or too often , they will destroy you . However grating ...
... concerned with everyday life like the moral of a fable . Consider Christ's death on the cross . The theme might be formulated as this : If you threaten those in authority too much or too often , they will destroy you . However grating ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 3 |
Portrait and Narrative | 9 |
How a Person Comes Alive | 31 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Portrait and Story: Dramaturgical Approaches to the Study of Persons Larry Cochran Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1986 |
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achieve action actual Adolf Hitler battle become beginning bogeyman Burns C. S. Lewis central enactment cerned character Christopher Milne coherence complete composition context contrast courage crisis decision dominant doubt dramatic unit emerge ence enduring episode example experience fear feeling formulated fox hunting Gordon Liddy Harré hero human ideals imagination indecision instance intense investigation involved isolation Liddy Liddy's lives Lord Jim martial music meaning ment metaphor nature negative Nixon novel novelist one's oneself peace person personhood personology perspective physical repetition plot units portrait potential practice principles prison prototypical psychology qualities questions reality regnant drama regnant position regnant stance requires role seems selflessness sense significance sition situation story stress striving structure symbolic syntagmatic structure theme things tion transformation Trollope Trollope's unity variant vision warrior world view yearning Yehudi Menuhin yin and yang