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Outline is a novel by Rachel Cusk, [1] the first in a trilogy known as The Outline trilogy, [2] which also contains the novels Transit and Kudos.It was chosen by The New York Times critics as one of the 15 remarkable books by women that are "shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."
The term characterization was introduced in the 19th century. [3] Aristotle promoted the primacy of plot over characters, that is, a plot-driven narrative, arguing in his Poetics that tragedy "is a representation, not of men, but of action and life."
Reich argues that character structures were organizations of resistance with which individuals avoided facing their neuroses: different character structures — whether schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochistic, hysterical, compulsive, narcissistic, or rigid — were sustained biologically as body types by unconscious muscular contraction.
In structural semantics, the actantial model, also called the actantial narrative schema, is a tool used to analyze the action that takes place in a story, whether real or fictional.
James Bond is a fictional character created in 1953 by the journalist and writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novels and two short story collections. [1] The character has also been used in the long-running and third most financially successful English-language film series to date (behind only the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars ...
For Fromm, character types can be productive or unproductive. Fromm notes that character structures develop in each individual to enable him or her to interact successfully within a given society and adapt to its mode of production and social norms (see social character), and may be very counter-productive when used in a different society.
The actress then launched into the story of her bizarre hotel room interaction, explaining that it all began when she was about to jump in the shower "butt naked."
The decadent movement takes decadence in literature to an extreme, with characters who debase themselves for pleasure, [53] [54] and the use of metaphor, symbolism and language as tools to obfuscate the truth rather than expose it [55] Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustav Flaubert, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde: Aestheticism