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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... perspective of personhood . That is , a portrait of Nixon will serve as the perspective from which to see into and through crises . In this way we can begin to chart the interdependence and interpenetration of portrait and story . Thus ...
... perspective of personhood . That is , a portrait of Nixon will serve as the perspective from which to see into and through crises . In this way we can begin to chart the interdependence and interpenetration of portrait and story . Thus ...
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... perspective . For example , suppose we take the big frog's perspective . If we did , the moral of the tale would not resemble one we might formulate of how envy leads to a bad end . Since people are reflective and reflexive , they can ...
... perspective . For example , suppose we take the big frog's perspective . If we did , the moral of the tale would not resemble one we might formulate of how envy leads to a bad end . Since people are reflective and reflexive , they can ...
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... perspective on meaning , what we might term “ meaning in life , " to distinguish it from simply the common meaning of an experience . As another example , a life story lacks a strong claim to cor- respondent truth . Events were often ...
... perspective on meaning , what we might term “ meaning in life , " to distinguish it from simply the common meaning of an experience . As another example , a life story lacks a strong claim to cor- respondent truth . Events were often ...
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