Volition's Face : Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature [1 ed.] 9780268101688, 9780268101671

Volition's Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern) [1 ed.] 0268101671, 9780268101671

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Volition's Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature 9780268101695, 0268101698

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained r

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Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature 9780226776620

In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed

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Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 25) 9781843841821, 1843841827

Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.

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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis 9780300231137

A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late

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Renaissance Literature 9780748631216

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748625840'); This concise introduction to the literature of an exciti

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Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature 9781474414104

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature This collection explores a range of li

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Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature 9781474416306

The first study of legal reform and literature in early modern England This book investigates rhetorical and representa

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Personification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry 9780231887960

Studies 18th century personification by looking at the personification abstraction rather than with personification of m

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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature 0823273369, 9780823273362

The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that ins

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