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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... whole , and the overall story is a qualitative whole . The basic organizing principle of a story is a gap between two poles . All stories begin with an “ is ” for which there is an “ ought to be " . Scholars have used various terms to ...
... whole , and the overall story is a qualitative whole . The basic organizing principle of a story is a gap between two poles . All stories begin with an “ is ” for which there is an “ ought to be " . Scholars have used various terms to ...
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... whole , and then , having grasped the latter , one can reinterpret and under- stand the former " ( p . 605 ) . The whole determines the role or meaning of parts , while parts can alter the whole . To Murray's remark we might add that ...
... whole , and then , having grasped the latter , one can reinterpret and under- stand the former " ( p . 605 ) . The whole determines the role or meaning of parts , while parts can alter the whole . To Murray's remark we might add that ...
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... whole that provides a focus for elaborations that can be woven back into the whole . Combined , the overall value of these four advan- tages of a life plot are that they can help to refine , extend , and revise a plot . They facilitate ...
... whole that provides a focus for elaborations that can be woven back into the whole . Combined , the overall value of these four advan- tages of a life plot are that they can help to refine , extend , and revise a plot . They facilitate ...
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