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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| 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.