… that within which passes show": The character of being, poetry therapy and the performatives of self-transformation in Menander's Dyskolus, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Chopin's Story of an Ho

Abstract

This study considers how Menander's Dyskolus, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Chopin's Story Of An Hour theorize dramatic character as being and demonstrate that the cognitive movement of self-transformation theorized by the contemporary practice of biblio-poetry therapy actually evolved through time as a self-questioning dialogue.

Keywords:

• Being
• Bibliotherapy
• Cognitive Movement
• Performatives
• Poetry Therapy
• Self-transformation