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Personification : embodying meaning and emotion /

Personification, or prosopopeia, the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or 'face,' is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure's cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited su...

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Other Authors:	Melion, Walter S. (Editor), Ramakers, B. A. M. (Bart A. M.), 1961- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:	Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; v. 41.
Subjects:	Personification in literature.

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