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Volition's Face : Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern SeriesPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268101688
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Volition's FaceDDC classification:
  • 820.9/003
LOC classification:
  • PR421.E836 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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