The Cast of Character : : The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature / / Warren Ginsberg.
This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques and perspectives from rhetoric, philosophy, and sometimes theology to fashion figures who define not on...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Idea of Character in Ovid: The Amores
- 2. The Representation of Character in Ovid: The Metamorphoses
- 3. Literary Typology and the Medieval Idea of Character
- 4. Boccaccio's Characters and the Rhetorical 'Disputatio in utramque partem'
- 5. The Cast of Character: Chaucer and the Conventions of Originality
- Notes
- Index