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On the basis of the author’s earlier “construction” of Alfred Schutz’s Sociological Aspect of Literature, it is shown how the themes and approaches of psychology, social science, and the historical sciences are clarified by him with references to aspects of literature.
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My late colleague and friend, Stanford Lyman, saw Schutz as anticipating Kenneth Burke and Erving Goffman’s revival of dramatism in social science: “The dramatistic perspective… begins with asserting the literal truth of Shakespeare’s passage in As You Like It that ‘All the world’s a stage…’ It goes on to point out that each culture provides a ‘treatment’ for the ‘script’ of life, the ‘scenes’ and ‘acts’ of which are ‘written’ and/or ‘performed’ by individual or collective social ‘actors,’ who are also ‘direct’ or ‘directed’ in their performances, ‘criticized’ by themselves and by their ‘audiences,’ and choose or are commanded either to replay their ‘part’ again and again, to perform their ‘role’ only occasionally, or to ‘close’ the drama and begin a new one.” (Lyman 1998, p. 209)
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Embree, L. (2014). Cultural Science in Literary Light. In: Barber, M., Dreher, J. (eds) The Interrelation of Phenomenology, Social Sciences and the Arts. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 69. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01390-9_3
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