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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... evolution . A biologist might investigate a single species , how it arose and how it died . What were its possibilities ? Why did it die out while other species flourished ? While biologists seek laws of life that are quite different ...
... evolution . A biologist might investigate a single species , how it arose and how it died . What were its possibilities ? Why did it die out while other species flourished ? While biologists seek laws of life that are quite different ...
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... when the picture is en- larged to include multiple dramatic units . If A and B mutually adapted , then A will almost inevitably be less adaptive to other units . As in evolution , too much specialization leads Dramatic Units 161.
... when the picture is en- larged to include multiple dramatic units . If A and B mutually adapted , then A will almost inevitably be less adaptive to other units . As in evolution , too much specialization leads Dramatic Units 161.
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Dramaturgical Approaches to the Study of Persons Larry Cochran. units . As in evolution , too much specialization leads to a dead end . For a collection of units to cohere into a dramatic com- position there is good reason to suppose ...
Dramaturgical Approaches to the Study of Persons Larry Cochran. units . As in evolution , too much specialization leads to a dead end . For a collection of units to cohere into a dramatic com- position there is good reason to suppose ...
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