Speaking Spirits : : Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy / / Sherry Roush.
In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their pre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Eidolopoeia : Idol Making
- 1. Rewriting the Auctor : Revising according to the Text's Letter or Spirit?
- 2. Divining Dante: Scandals of His Corpus and Corpse
- 3. Genius Loci : Exile, Citizenship, and the Place of Burial
- 4. Habeas Corpus, Habeas Spiritum : Some Not-So-Final Thoughts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index