Poetics of Personification

Klappentext An appraisal of literary personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought. Zusammenfassung James Paxson offers a critical and theoretical appraisal of literary personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought! reassessing early theories and examining medieval and early modern texts to show how personification reveals and advertises the problems and limits inherent in poetic or verbal creation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A history of personification theory; 2. Towards a taxonomy of tropes; 3. Narrative level, personification, and character ontology in Prudentius' Psychomachia; 4. A phenomenology of personification; 5. Personification, dreams, and narrative structure in Piers Plowman B; 6. Narrating the personification of personification in The Faerie Queene; Conclusion; Taxonomy II and future directions in personification theory; Notes; Works cited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Paxson James J., James J. Paxson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521106313
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10631-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies