Phd Candidate in Design
every narrative combines two dimensions in various proportions, one chronological and the other non-chronological. the first may be called the episodic dimension, which characterize the story as made out of events. The second is the configurational dimension, according to which the plot construes significant wholes out of scattered events. Here I am borrowing from Louis [...]
the word personality is sometimes treated as interchangeable with character, although its connotations are often very different. Anthony Quinton has suggested that we tend to speak of personality when our concern is how a person presents her/him self to the world. one might be tempted to contrast character to personality as the inner to the [...]
..to distinguish between dramaturgy and dramatism is to distinguish between the statements: it is as if life is theater, and life is theater. in the first instance, the theater is a grand metaphor. social action may be understood as analogous to stage actions. in the second instance, social organization and the roles that constitute it [...]
“who are you?” said the caterpillar. “I- I hardly know, Sir, just at present, ” Alice replied shyly, “at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.” – Carroll, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.