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Paperback The Poetics of Personification Book

ISBN: 0521106311

ISBN13: 9780521106313

The Poetics of Personification

(Part of the Literature, Culture, Theory Series)

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Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man had given it prominence as the master trope of poetic discourse. James Paxson here offers a critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought. He reassesses early theories and examines the allegorical texts of Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland and Spenser to show how personification...

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