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- 10.62051/raazjx70
- Aug 29, 2024
- Transactions on Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Ludwig Van Beethoven was a famous German composer and pianist who was a major musical figure in the transition from the classical period to the Romantic period. His 32 piano sonatas, characterized by profound thought, significantly contributed to the sonata form's structural development. Among his masterpieces, the "Moonlight Sonata" stands out for its rich emotional depth, innovative musical arrangement, and powerful musical effect that captivates the listener. The Presto agitato of the third movement imparts a sense of tension and excitement, as if immersing oneself in a storm of emotions. This rapid pace evokes an ineffable passion and impulse, crafting a musical universe that is both dynamic and profoundly emotional. This paper analyzes the third movement of the "Moonlight Sonata " from the perspectives of its creative background, musical structure, and performance techniques.
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- 10.5195/cinej.2025.718
- May 27, 2025
- CINEJ Cinema Journal
History presented in films has always been problematic. This debate is generally categorized into two categories, if the historical movies are loyal to the historical fact or if they should be aesthetically considered an art form. Costume adventure films in Turkish Cinema, present mythological characters with fantasy elements raising nationalist sentiments. This authentic genre in Turkish Cinema takes history as a background motif presenting Karaoğlan, Malkoçoğlu, Kara Murat and Battal Gazi, yet combines real facts and people in history with fantasy world heroes and incidents. Hence, these films raise a query regarding the accuracy of their portrayal in relation to historical fact. This paper aims to uncover the fact beyond the fantasy, the conflict between the real people and their representations in the movies in a different perspective.
- Book Chapter
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- 10.1017/cbo9780511500107.005
- Dec 23, 2002
After plot, the most intuitively important aspect of a story concerns the characters. For example, in some simple stories, characters create the plot: The villain creates a problem that the hero must overcome. In some complex, literary narratives, characterization would seem to be an overriding motivation of the implied author, with the events of the narrative merely serving to provide information about the characters. Not surprisingly, then, character and characterization have been a productive area of scholarship in narratology and literary studies. Important work has also been done in linguistics and discourse processing. Our view is that work in personality and social psychology is also directly relevant to understanding character in narrative, although the connection has not always been made in discourse processing research. In this chapter, we review some of the work in these disciplines. We then discuss some categories of features that are relevant to character in narrative and provide a general framework for how these might be used by readers. Finally, we provide some evidence on the use of characterization features by readers.
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- 10.1086/695968
- Dec 1, 2017
- Modern Philology
Previous articleNext article FreeBook ReviewCharacter and Person. John Frow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi+331.Julie OrlemanskiJulie OrlemanskiUniversity of Chicago Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn this diffuse but often brilliant study, John Frow braids together reflections on two topics, personhood and fictional character. Without equating the pair—they are “ontologically discontinuous” though “logically interdependent”—Frow considers them in tandem, across the “many culturally and historically specific schemata by which real and imaginary persons are assigned their particular ways of being” (vii, vi). Character and person form a conceptual chiasmus at the heart of the book, as Frow shows time and again “not only how characters work as quasi-persons across a range of media and genres, but also how social personhood works as a kind of fiction” (vii). The materials considered come from philosophy, law, anthropology, linguistics, social and cultural history, narratology, film studies, psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and literary history, with special emphasis on the rise of the novel and international modernism. At its best, this dizzying array instantiates the complexity of the book’s central notions, provincializes ideas too often taken as universal, and qualifies the supposed attainments of western modernity. Occasionally the book’s ranginess feels merely eclectic or exhausting. But throughout, Character and Person is animated by Frow’s luminous and exacting intelligence.In the preface, Frow identifies the argumentative style of Character and Person as “that of a prolonged essay,” which (in the words of Theodor Adorno) “neither makes deductions from a principle nor draws conclusions from coherent individual observations. It coordinates elements instead of subordinating them” (viii, ix). Accordingly, the book does not pursue a unitary thesis, and readers are more likely to browse its varied contents than to read it straight through. Its breadth and associative style distinguish it from more conventional literary-historical studies like Deidre Shauna Lynch’s The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998), Alex Woloch’s One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel (2003), and Elizabeth Fowler’s Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing (2003)—which make historicist arguments within bounded time frames. Frow is after something more capacious. Still, recurring themes knit Frow’s volume together, and these are usefully outlined in the preface (ix–x) and in the chapter summaries found at the end of the first chapter (32–35).The book falls into eight chapters: “Figure,” “Interest,” “Person,” “Type,” “Voice,” “Name,” “Face,” and “Body.” Each chapter has between six and ten sections, and each section refracts the chapter’s theme through a different text or context. The range of materials in a particular chapter can be enormous. “Interest,” for instance, weaves together digital gaming, Freudian theories of identification, incitements to sympathy in the eighteenth-century novel, and debates on pornography. Given the difficulty of summarizing such heterogeneity, I focus my descriptions below on the chapters’ respective conceptual contributions.The first chapter, “Figure,” explores the tension between two traditions of analyzing literary characters—one that treats characters as though they were real people, another that insists on their status as elements in a textual structure. It is the movement between these perspectives that gives narrative figuration its unique dynamism. Frow foregrounds the composite nature of character, which “is not an autonomous and distinct textual unit but, rather, the site of a diffuse semantic effect”; it is “not a stable given that can be recognized, but rather a construct which evolves through the course of reading” (24). These observations are in keeping with the book’s acute sensitivity to the phenomenological constitution of literary entities. The following chapter, “Interest,” considers the energies of recognition and identification that simultaneously shape audiences and the characters to which they respond. The avatar in electronic gaming is “the mechanism by which the player is inscribed, both functionally and affectively, into the game,” not unlike the way that positions of enunciation inscribe readers: “The binding-in of the reading or viewing or speaking subject occurs above all in its slotting into these positions which constitute it as a subject in the very process of making sense” (47, 41). Particularly suggestive is Frow’s turn to Freud’s entwined notions of identification and narcissism, and how the “narcissistic dissemination of ego-libido” can be understood to underwrite “all historically specific regimes of identification with fictional characters” (52).The third chapter, “Person,” usefully frames personhood not as a concept but as a Foucauldian “dispositif, an evolving apparatus for the shaping of social arrangements” (71). Accordingly, Frow is careful to separate the “intuitive sense of self,” which all conscious humans can be supposed to have, from the “category of the self,” which assumes different forms across historical, social, and institutional contexts. The chapter sketches a motley taxonomy of personhood, drawing on but ultimately rejecting a progressive narrative of “the successive mutations of a continuously developing entity which reaches its fullest form in modernity” (95). Frow’s claims are organized by the conviction that “there can be no general concept of ‘person,’” and there are instead only varying regimes of recognition and their lived categories (81). “Type,” the topic of the fourth chapter, explores the shared and conventional systems of knowledge by which people group, generalize, and simplify other people. The chapter moves from the character types compiled by Aristotle’s pupil Theophrastus to the revival and adaptation of Theophrastus in the late seventeenth century, and finally to the “emergence of a new modality of fiction” in the realist novel’s “asemantic and non-referential proper name” (113). An analysis of Hamlet aptly illustrates the tensions between subjectivity and type in one of western literature’s defining characters. Amid his literary reflections, Frow also includes a profoundly thoughtful excursus on how everyday ways of knowing should be fitted within broader epistemological hierarchies (119–22).“Voice” is, for me, the most fascinating chapter of the book. By voice, Frow does not mean anything sonic per se, but rather the “situational positioning” of pronouns, verb tense, and deixis “by which selves are represented in discourse” (149). Clarifying engagements with Emile Benveniste, on grammatical person, and Erving Goffman, on “the ‘production format’ of the utterance,” prepare the way for a delightfully lucid account of impersonal narration and free indirect discourse (165). At the heart of the matter is how deixis comes unstuck from enunciation: “‘impersonal’ narration shifts its deictic center from the situation of the utterance which is the norm for spoken language, to the spatio-temporal coordinates corresponding to the central or focalized character” (168). As a result, “fictional character produces the effect of belonging simultaneously to discourse and to representation” (175). Frow concludes with a reflection on subjectivity in language and how deictic shifters “at once situate me and render me discontinuous with myself, or rather constitute my self as a site of shifting reference” (180). “Name,” the sixth chapter, examines the never-unsystematic ways that nomination inscribes individuals into “the social order, tying bodies to language to make us recognizable as persons or non-persons” (181). Frow acknowledges the well-developed philosophical conversation on proper names and referring expressions but points out its limited utility for more richly determined cultural contexts. Literary character is not constituted, after all, by the proper name: “It is only by an extrapolation from the level of language to the semantic level, and the ‘world’ figured forth there, that we recognize the quasi-persons of fictional texts” (187). Frow’s attempts to trace the literary evolution of proper names from medieval romance to the modern novel is not, alas, especially convincing, and the chapter’s focus wavers during the long reading of Proust. However, the concluding discussion of Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms returns to relevance.Perhaps the least successful chapters in Character and Person are the final pair, “Face” and “Body.” Neither topic is based squarely in the problematics of language and representation that have concerned the book to this point, and the issues they raise thus seem somewhat afield. The chapters nonetheless contain moments of luminous interest. Proust’s descriptions of Albertine make an apt exemplar of the face’s “virtual multidimensionality that, over time, generates its discrepant realizations whilst appearing at any one moment as a single thing” (234). The interplay between mask and voice in the New Comedy becomes a clever analogue for Aristotelian ēthos and pathos and a generative means of investigating comic characters more generally. The final chapter lays out a careful critique of mind-body dualism, which acknowledges both how difficult it is to eradicate the “brain in a vat” model of subjectivity but also how untenable it is to posit the immediacy of body to consciousness. The relation is rather one of “complex mediations and disjunctions” (285). Frow usefully clarifies the difference between “body schema” and “body image,” and he also meditates beautifully on Richard Powers’s novel Galatea 2.2, where, in the interaction of computation and human language, the bodily roots of “conceptuality itself” become evident (275). The book then draws to a close without epilogue or afterword, and readers are left with the kaleidoscopic afterimages of its sundry analytical frames.Character and Person is a treasury of insights on fictional being, social recognition, language, and representation. The intricacy and breadth of Frow’s reflections will make it an important resource—ideally, a conceptual prolegomenon—for critics investigating fictional character in more conventional studies, bound by genre or period. Its one serious weakness is its failure to give a global account of its archive of sources, which means that unreckoned-with bias begins to slant its central concepts. As mentioned above, the selection of intertexts favors literary innovation, especially the novel’s development and modernist experimentation. Popular genres of mass culture are relatively neglected; there is little consideration of ideologies and institutions of dehumanization; and one might have hoped for more engagement with performance, theatricality, and medium specificity. Yet every book has its limits, and while an explicit account of those limits is desirable, Character and Person does more than most to redefine received parameters of thought. The precision of the distinctions Frow cuts and the originality of the connections he draws make this an important contribution to “sociological poetics,” one that brilliantly ruminates on the variable interplay between “formal categor[ies] and particular forms of life” (x–xi). 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- Dec 1, 1981
- College English
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- 10.56620/2587-9731-2025-4-132-169
- Jan 1, 2025
- Contemporary Musicology
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- Jan 31, 2025
- Journal of Psychology and Social Sciences
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- Cahiers ERTA
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- Jan 6, 2010
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
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- 10.7765/9781526118936.00023
- Jun 28, 2022
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- 10.1353/sdn.2020.0007
- Jan 1, 2020
- Studies in the Novel
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- Dec 1, 2011
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