Personification : : embodying meaning and emotion / / edited by Walter S. Melion and Bart Ramakers.
Personification, or prosopopeia , the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or ‘face’, is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure’s cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited sustained schola...
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Superior document: | Intersections, Volume 41 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.)
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (787 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Personification: An Introduction / Walter S. Melion and Bart Ramakers
- 1 Personification Allegory and Embodied Cognition / Jean Bocharova
- 2 Dante and St. Francis: Shaping Lives, Reshaping Allegory / Jeremy Tambling
- 3 Personification, Power, and the Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry / William Rhodes
- 4 The Personification of the Human Subject in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene / Brenda Machosky
- 5 Framework, Personification, and Pisanello’s Poetics / C. Jean Campbell
- 6 The Triumph of Truth in an Age of Confessional Conflict / James Clifton
- 7 The Mystical Experience—Between Personification and Incarnation: The Idea vitae Teresianae iconibus symbolicis expressa (Antwerp, Jacob Mesens: 1680s) / Ralph Dekoninck
- 8 From the Parade to the Stage: Evolution and Significance of Personifications in Lyon’s Sotties (1566–1610) / Katell Lavéant
- 9 Personification in Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three Estates / Greg Walker
- 10 Both One and the Other: The Educational Value of Personification in the Female Humanist Theatre of Peeter Heyns (1537–1598) / Alisa van de Haar
- 11 Dirty from Behind, Pearly in Front: Lady World in Rhetoricians’ Drama / Bart Ramakers
- 12 Mute Poem, Speaking Picture: The Personification of the Paragone in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens / Jennifer A. Royston
- 13 The Politics of Personification in the Jacobean Lord Mayors’ Shows / Susan L. Anderson
- 14 Figured Personification and Parabolic Embodiment in Jan David’s Occasio arrepta, neglecta / Walter S. Melion
- 15 Double Meaning of Personification in Early Modern Thesis Prints of the Southern Low Countries: Between Noetic and Encomiastic Representation / Gwendoline de Mûelenaere
- 16 Vermeer, the Art of Meditation, and the Allegory of Faith / Aneta Georgievska-Shine
- 17 Personifications of Caritas as Reflexive Figures / Caecilie Weissert
- 18 Maarten van Heemskerck’s Caritas: Personifying Virtue, Animating Stone with Paint, Imaging the Image Debate / Arthur J. DiFuria
- 19 Abraham Bloemaert and Caritas: A Lesson in Perception / Caroline O. Fowler
- 20 The Duchess and the Cadaver: Doubling and Microarchitecture in Late Medieval Art (with Alice Chaucer and John Lydgate) / Elizabeth Fowler
- 21 ‘But You are Blind, and Know Not What is in You’: ‘A.L.’, The Fraudulent Judge, and the Coerced Conscience / June Waudby
- 22 Precarious Personification: Fortuna in the Artist’s Cabinet / Lisa Rosenthal
- 23 Producing the Legible Body: Personification, the Beholder, and Tiepolo’s Würzburg Frescos / Max Weintraub
- 24 The Personification of Africa with an Elephant-head Crest in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (1603) / Joaneath Spicer
- 25 The Four Continents in Seventeenth-Century Embroidery and the Making of English Femininity / Heather A. Hughes
- Index Nominum.