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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katharine BreenPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9780226776590ISBN 10: 022677659 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 17 May 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Prudentian Personification Chapter 1 Consecratus Manu: Men Forming Gods Forming Men Chapter 2 How to Fight like a Girl: Christianizing Personification in the Psychomachia Part II Neoplatonic Personification Chapter 3 Ex Uno Omnia: Plato’s Forms and Daemons Chapter 4 Oh, Nurse! The Boethian Daemon Part III Aristotelian Personification Chapter 5 E Pluribus Unum: Abstracting Universals from Particulars Chapter 6 Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d’Enfer and Winner and Waster Chapter 7 A Good Body Is Hard to Find: Putting Personification through Its Paces in Piers Plowman Notes IndexReviewsMachines of the Mind persuades its readers to think more systematically about the types and uses of personification. Breen clears away some forty years of confusion about medieval philosophical positions on realism and so-called nominalism, clearly differentiating them from the postmodern nominalism of twentieth-century high theory and imaginatively reconsidering their implications for literary representation. Her schema will allow future scholars to differentiate Platonic, Neoplatonic, moderate realist, and nominalist strategies for personification while also recognizing that many medieval works may employ multiple types at once. This book will remain a reference point for many years to come. --Fiona Somerset, author of Feeling like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif Machines of the Mind persuades its readers to think more systematically about the types and uses of personification. Breen clears away some forty years of confusion about medieval philosophical positions on realism and so-called nominalism, clearly differentiating them from the postmodern nominalism of twentieth-century high theory and imaginatively reconsidering their implications for literary representation. Her schema will allow future scholars to differentiate Platonic, Neoplatonic, moderate realist, and nominalist strategies for personification while also recognizing that many medieval works may employ multiple types at once. This book will remain a reference point for many years to come. -- Fiona Somerset, author of Feeling like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif Author InformationKatharine Breen is associate professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400, and her essays and articles have appeared in such publications as Representations, Journal of Church History, Chaucer Review, Review of English Studies, Speculum, and New Medieval Literatures, among others. She is a coeditor of the Yearbook of Langland Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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