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

by Andrew Escobedo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268101671
• ISBN13: 9780268101671
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"