The Resource Volition's face : personification and the will in Renaissance literature, Andrew Escobedo
Volition's face : personification and the will in Renaissance literature, Andrew Escobedo
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- Summary
- "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 figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action. As the will emerged as an isolatable faculty in the Christian Middle Ages, it was seen not only as the instrument of human agency but also as perversely independent of other human capacities, for example, intellect and moral character. Renaissance accounts of the will conceived of volition both as the means to self-creation and the faculty by which we lose control of ourselves. After offering a brief history of the will that isolates the distinctive features of the faculty in medieval and Renaissance thought, Escobedo makes his case through an examination of several personified figures in Renaissance literature: Conscience in the Tudor interludes, Despair in Doctor Faustus and book I of The Faerie Queen, Love in books III and IV of The Faerie Queen, and Sin in Paradise Lost. These examples demonstrate that literary personification did not amount to a dim reflection of "realistic" fictional character, but rather that it provided a literary means to explore the numerous conundrums posed by the premodern notion of the human will. This book will be of great interest to faculty and graduate students interested in Medieval studies and Renaissance literature. "This exhilarating and brilliant book will be a most welcome and timely addition to the ReFormations series, to which it will add distinction. It is also a book that can be relished sentence by sentence, as Escobedo is a writer of intellectual verve and boldness, making hard-won claims look obvious once made."--Sarah Beckwith, Duke University"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 326 pages)
- Contents
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- Personification, energy, and allegory
- The prosopopoetic will: ours, though not we
- Conscience in the Tudor interludes
- Despair in Marlowe and Spenser
- Love and Spenser's Cupid
- Sin and Milton's Angel
- Epilogue: Premodern personification and posthumanism?
- Isbn
- 9780268101695
- Label
- Volition's face : personification and the will in Renaissance literature
- Title
- Volition's face
- Title remainder
- personification and the will in Renaissance literature
- Statement of responsibility
- Andrew Escobedo
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- English literature -- Early modern
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance
- Personification in literature
- Personification in literature
- Will in literature
- Will in literature
- 1500-1700
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action. As the will emerged as an isolatable faculty in the Christian Middle Ages, it was seen not only as the instrument of human agency but also as perversely independent of other human capacities, for example, intellect and moral character. Renaissance accounts of the will conceived of volition both as the means to self-creation and the faculty by which we lose control of ourselves. After offering a brief history of the will that isolates the distinctive features of the faculty in medieval and Renaissance thought, Escobedo makes his case through an examination of several personified figures in Renaissance literature: Conscience in the Tudor interludes, Despair in Doctor Faustus and book I of The Faerie Queen, Love in books III and IV of The Faerie Queen, and Sin in Paradise Lost. These examples demonstrate that literary personification did not amount to a dim reflection of "realistic" fictional character, but rather that it provided a literary means to explore the numerous conundrums posed by the premodern notion of the human will. This book will be of great interest to faculty and graduate students interested in Medieval studies and Renaissance literature. "This exhilarating and brilliant book will be a most welcome and timely addition to the ReFormations series, to which it will add distinction. It is also a book that can be relished sentence by sentence, as Escobedo is a writer of intellectual verve and boldness, making hard-won claims look obvious once made."--Sarah Beckwith, Duke University"--
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- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Escobedo, Andrew
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- Personification in literature
- Will in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- English literature
- Personification in literature
- Will in literature
- Label
- Volition's face : personification and the will in Renaissance literature, Andrew Escobedo
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Personification, energy, and allegory -- The prosopopoetic will: ours, though not we -- Conscience in the Tudor interludes -- Despair in Marlowe and Spenser -- Love and Spenser's Cupid -- Sin and Milton's Angel -- Epilogue: Premodern personification and posthumanism?
- Control code
- ocn979560027
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 326 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780268101695
- Lccn
- 2017020114
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvpgj1r4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)979560027
- Label
- Volition's face : personification and the will in Renaissance literature, Andrew Escobedo
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Personification, energy, and allegory -- The prosopopoetic will: ours, though not we -- Conscience in the Tudor interludes -- Despair in Marlowe and Spenser -- Love and Spenser's Cupid -- Sin and Milton's Angel -- Epilogue: Premodern personification and posthumanism?
- Control code
- ocn979560027
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 326 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780268101695
- Lccn
- 2017020114
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvpgj1r4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)979560027
Subject
- Electronic books
- English literature -- Early modern
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance
- Personification in literature
- Personification in literature
- Will in literature
- Will in literature
- 1500-1700
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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