Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest.
In these characteristically incisive essays, Mark Singer profiles eccentrics, monomaniacs, and other remarkable people he thinks we ought to meet. He takes us i
We like to think of ourselves and our friends and families as pretty good people. The more we put our characters to the test, however, the more we see that we a
Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual ch