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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Escobedo, Andrew, 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
Collection:Reformations.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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