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

ISBN: 0268101671

ISBN13: 9780268101671

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

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Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobedo argues that premodern writers, including Spenser, Marlowe, and Milton, understood personification as a literary expression of will, an essentially energetic...

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