Volition's face : personification and the will in Renaissance literature /

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"Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Esco...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Escobedo, Andrew, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
Series:Reformations.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Personification in literature.
Will in literature.
Personnification (Littérature)
Volonté dans la littérature.
personification.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
English literature > Early modern
Personification in literature
Will in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Personification, energy, and allegory
  • The prosopopoetic will: ours, though not we
  • Conscience in the Tudor interludes
  • Despair in Marlowe and Spenser
  • Love and Spenser's Cupid
  • Sin and Milton's Angel
  • Epilogue: Premodern personification and posthumanism?

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