Volition's Face : Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9780268101688
- 820.9/003
- PR421.E836 2017
Cover -- VOLITION'S FACE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Personification, Energy, and Allegory -- Chapter Two The Prosopopoetic Will: Ours, though Not We -- Chapter Three Conscience in the Tudor Interludes -- Chapter Four Despair in Marlowe and Spenser -- Chapter Five Love and Spenser's Cupid -- Chapter Six Sin and Milton's Angel -- Epilogue: Premodern Personification and Posthumanism? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
In this book, Andres Escobedo revises the widespread scholarly view that associates literary personification with flat character, constraint, and death; instead, Escobedo demonstrates that premodern readers understood personification as an essentially energetic figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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