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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Description: Todayâs guest is Aaron Kunin, Professor of English at Pomona College. We will discuss two books Aaron published in 2019: the first is Character as Form (Bloomsbury), a re-examination of the early modern understanding of âcharacterâ as stereotype, generalization, and convention. In Character as Form, Aaron braids together close readings of furniture in Christopher Marloweâs Tamburlaine, a reflection on the concept of negative anthropology from Raul Ruizâs Three Lives and Only One Death, and insight into formalism and anti-formalist views of fictive personhood.The second we discuss is Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George Herber...