Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 structures 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
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 structures 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
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- The Poetics of Personification , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994