The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out
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Book Description
As entertaining as it is illuminating, THE LITERARY ENEAGRAM offers a fresh version of the standard "Great Books" course, using characters from literature to show the inner dynamics of the nine Enneagram styles and their variations. This books is:
For Students of Literature: THE LITERARY ENNEAGRAM demonstrates offers an exciting new key to Western literature through clarifying the basic psychological patterns of characters in classic and contemporary novels, stories, and plays.
For Psychologists: THE LITERARY ENNEAGRAM demostrates simply and eloquently that the true basis of human psychological differences lies in inner experiences rather than outer behavior. Judith Searle's work validates the Enneagram as a universal template for human psychology by showing how characters created by authors unfamiliar with the Enneagram conform to the character arc the system predicts.
For Writers: THE LITERARY ENNEAGRAM offers screenwriters, fiction writers and playwrights a powerful tool for character development, a template for creating character grids, and a basis for devising character-driven plot twists that seem both inevitable and surprising.
For Actors: THE LITERARY ENNEAGRAM offers guidelines for creating characters that live and breathe on stage and screen as well as on the page. Performers who understand their own Enneagram style can make the "type casting" that is so prevalent in the entertainment industry work for them.
And For Readers of Fiction: THE LITERARY ENNEAGRAM offers a richer understanding of literary characters and valuable insights into ways their psychology relates to the reader's own personality patterns and relationships with others.
About the Author
Judith Serle is the author of LOVELIFE, a novel, and GETTING THE PART, a book for actors. Her authorial credits also include SLEEP TALK by Lois Haddad with Patricia Wilson and Judith Searle. Many of her articles have appeared in ENNEAGRAM MONTHLY. A Professional Member of the International Enneagram Association, she teaches workshops around the country.
The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out,Judith Searle,Metamorphous Press,155552107X,Characters and characteristics,Characters and characteristics in literature,Enneagram,Literature: Classics
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