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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... later instances . Features move from one pole to an opposite pole . For ex- ample , fear changes to fearlessness . Features are polarized , and part of development involves a shift from one pole to another . Since opposing poles ...
... later instances . Features move from one pole to an opposite pole . For ex- ample , fear changes to fearlessness . Features are polarized , and part of development involves a shift from one pole to another . Since opposing poles ...
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... later , he was filled with joy . He had looked death in the face and was still alive . He shouted at the powerful storm to kill him , for he did not care . He laughed uncontrollably as he rode the trunk dancing in the wind . Now the ...
... later , he was filled with joy . He had looked death in the face and was still alive . He shouted at the powerful storm to kill him , for he did not care . He laughed uncontrollably as he rode the trunk dancing in the wind . Now the ...
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... later in university classes . Throughout his career Burns continued to find support , but only much later was that support given by people . It was in books and , in particular , novels that his vision of the world was con- firmed and ...
... later in university classes . Throughout his career Burns continued to find support , but only much later was that support given by people . It was in books and , in particular , novels that his vision of the world was con- firmed and ...
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 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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