The Politics of Personification: Anthropomorphism and Agency in Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate

This dissertation attends to the figurative device of personification, or prosopopoeia, in the writings of three late-medieval English authors, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Lydgate. Situating my study between three coordinates -- the lineage of rhetorical anthropomorphism stretching...

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Main Author: Gilbert, Gaelan
Other Authors: Mitchell, J. Allan
Language:English
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Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6507