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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cognitive perspectives on personification
  • Personification and the critical tradition
  • Personification and the modalities of figuration
  • Personification on stage : forces of living presence
  • Jesuit approaches to personification
  • Personifying charity
  • Personifying life and afterlife, trial and retribution.