The Poetics of Personification (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009
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Paperback. Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the light of poststructuralist thought and theory. The poetics of personification provides a historical reassessment of early theories, together with a sustained account of how literary personification works through an examination of narratological and semiotic codes and structures in the allegorical texts of Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland and Spenser. The device turns out to be anything but an aberration, oddity or barbarism, from ancient, medieval or early modern literature. Rather, it works as a complex artistic tool for revealing and advertising the problems and limits inherent in narration in particular and poetic or verbal creation in general. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Poetics of Personification (Paperback)
- Author
- James J. Paxson
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521106311
- ISBN 13
- 9780521106313
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"Throughout he demonstrates an exhilarating rigor of argumentation based on a breadth of reading that I find rare in current theoretical writing....I think it is to his credit that he can argue as clearly and forcefully as he does in a field so dense with conceptual and verbal obstacles and tangles." R.A. Shoaf, Style
"...a brave attempt to 'rehabilitate' this pervasive trope in the light of post-structuralist literary theory." Craig R. Davis, Speculum
"...no reader thinking about personification in the Renaissance can afford to ignore Paxson's work." Studies in English Literature
"Paxson concedes the ahistoricizing tendencies of his poetics in his final chapter, which contains a short, provocative meditation on some of the questions one might ask about the cultural contexts from which the texts that make extensive use of personification arise....Paxson's close readings of particular allegorical texts are always interesting." Clare Kinney, Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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