Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

This is what necessitates the nonsystematic character of his astronomy.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.

I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.

Breiðablik is not otherwise mentioned in the Eddic sources.

One theory holds that it is identical to a word that means " great-grandmother " appearing in the Eddic poem Rígsþula.

Her willingness to capture sailing men is referred to in this citation from the Eddic poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana I where escaping the perils of the sea is referred to as escaping Rán:

Rudolf Simek theorizes that the survival of Líf and Lífþrasir through Ragnarök by hiding in Hoddmímis holt is " a case of reduplication of the anthropogeny, understandable from the cyclic nature of the Eddic escatology.

Grimm connects Eddic references to Sif's golden hair ( gold is referred to as Sifjar haddr ; Sif's hair ) with the herb name haddr Sifjar ( polytrichum aureum ).

While lines from the Eddic poems sometimes appear in poems by known poets such evidence is difficult to evaluate.

In scaldic and Eddic poetry, Freyr is sometimes called " Beli's enemy " ( Belja dólgr, in Eyvindr skáldaspillir's Háleygjatal, ) or " Beli's slayer " ( bani Belja in Völuspá, ).

Brynhildr ( sometimes spelled Brunhild, Brünnhilde, Brynhild ) is a shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Norse mythology, where she appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the same events.

In Norse mythology, Hymir is a giant, husband of the giantess Hroðr and according to the Eddic poem Hymiskviða the father of the god Týr.

According to the Eddic poem Hymiskviða she is the mother of Týr, the poem suggests by Hymir, but the later Prose Edda states that Óðinn is his father.

Rudolf Simek theorizes that the survival of Líf and Lífþrasir is " a case of reduplication of the anthropogeny, understandable from the cyclic nature of the Eddic escatology.

Jacob Grimm points out that dís Skjöldunga in the Eddic Helgakviða Hundingsbana II ( v. 52 ) is exactly parallel to ides Scildinga " Scylding queen " in Beowulf ( l. 1168 ).

The poem is considered to be among the youngest of the Eddic poems.

Hlöðskviða or The Battle of the Goths and Huns is sometimes counted among the Eddic Poems.

Baldrs draumar ( Baldr's dreams ) or Vegtamskviða is an Eddic poem, contained in the manuscript AM 748 I 4to.

The poem is one of the shortest Eddic poems, consisting of 14 fornyrðislag stanzas.

Brynjólfur attributed the manuscript to Sæmundr fróði, but the scholarly consensus is that whoever wrote the Eddic poems, whether in the sense of being the compiler or the poet, it could not have been Sæmundr.

The poem is significantly less structured than most Eddic poems, and is predominantly written in a metric form known as málaháttr or " conversational style ".

Rígsþula or Rígsmál (" Lay of Ríg ") is an Eddic poem in which a Norse god named Ríg or Rígr, described as " old and wise, mighty and strong ", fathers the classes of mankind.

The identification of Rígr with Heimdall is supported by his characterization as an ancestor, or kinsman, of humankind in the first two lines of the Eddic poem Völuspá :'