{"product_id":"personification-embodying-meaning-and-emotion-9789004310421","title":"Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersonification, 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 scholarly attention. The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, France, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries. Personification is susceptible to an approach that balances semiotic analysis, focusing on meaning effects, and phenomenological analysis, focusing on presence effects produced through bodily performance. This dual approach foregrounds the full scope of prosopopoeic discourse—not just the what, but also the how, not only the signified, but also the signifier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations  Personification: An Introduction Walter S. Melion and Bart Ramakers  PART 1 - Cognitive Perspectives on Personification  1. Allegorical Personification and Embodied Cognition Jean Bocharova  PART 2 - Personification and the Critical Tradition  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  PART 3 - Personification and the Modalities of Figuration  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  PART 4 - Personification on Stage: Forces of Living Presence  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  PART 5 - Jesuit Approaches to Personification  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  PART 6 - Personifying Charity  17. Personifications of Caritas as Reflexive Figures Caecilie Weissert  18. Maarten van Heemskerck’s Caritas: Personifiying Virtue, Animating Stone With Paint,  Imaging the Image Debate  Arthur J. Difuria  19. Abraham Bloemaert and Caritas: A Lesson in Perception Caroline O. Fowler  PART 7 - Personifying Life and Afterlife, Trial and Retribution  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  PART 8 - Personification and the Assertion of Allegorical Order  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  PART 9 - The Four Continents: Sources and Sentiments  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210681409879,"sku":"9789004310421","price":268.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/personification-embodying-meaning-and-emotion-9789004310421","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}