10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSOPOPOEIA»
Discover the use of
prosopopoeia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prosopopoeia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
In two of his later essays, Paul de Man focuses on the figure of prosopopoeia. In
the first, on William Wordsworth's Essays upon Epitaphs, de Man describes "the
prosopopoeia of voice and name" as "a figure of reading or understanding that ...
2
Romanticism After Auschwitz
precedent might allow for an understanding of prosopopoeia tied to neither
redemption nor privation. In some sense, Gubar and Hungerford inhabit the
positions held several decades earlier by M. H. Abrams and Paul de Man in their
...
3
Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject"
Psyche and Prosopopoeia De Man's theory of prosopopoeia is relevant to
Derrida's elegies for him because prosopopoeia, for de Man, describes the
delusory tendency of human consciousness to animate the inanimate. "Identified
with ...
Rei TERADA, Rei Terada, 2009
4
American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative
More specifically, prosopopoeia may be conceptualized as the master trope of
gothic's allegorical turn, because prosopopoeia— the act of personifying, of
giving face to an abstract, disembodied Other in order to return it to narrative—
disturbs ...
Robert K. Martin, Eric Savoy, 1998
5
Tropes, Parables, and Performatives
15 Prosopopoeia in Hardy and Stevens In a remarkable essay on the critical
theory of Michael Riffaterre, 1 Paul de Man moves towards the conclusion that
prosopopoeia, the ascription of a name, a face or a voice to the absent, the
inanimate, ...
6
Renaissance Figures of Speech
If we take prosopopoeia back to its literary origins, and use it to talk about lyric
voice or dramatic character, we can- not forget that it returns home fraught with
new rhetorical concerns, and notably the paradoxes bound up with the rhetorical
...
Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber, 2007
7
Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu
Apostrophe and Prosopopoeia: The Dramatic Mode To thwart a historical-
biographical reading of his works, at various stages of his writing career Yang Mu
has put on masks in constructing his lyric voice. Yang spells out his literary and
social ...
Prosopopoeia. and. Holocaust. Poetry. in. English: Sylvia. Plath. and. Her.
Contemporaries. Exploitation,. larceny, masochism, sensationalism: the terms of
opprobrium hurled against Sylvia Plath's use of Holocaust material generally
accord ...
9
Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity
animating Plato exemplifies the trope of 'prosopopoeia', a term that also reaches
us from the Greeks. Following Paul de Man, the literary theorist Kenneth Gross
defines prosopopoeia as 'the often hallucinatory figure by which poets lend a ...
Joan Copjec, Michael Sorkin, 1999
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Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman
Prosopopoeia And Stage 5: Recognizing The Base Narrative Program Let us
pause briefly for certain more concrete observations about the fundamental
metaphoric configuration evident in the above seme- mic results. Chapter 4 will
be, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSOPOPOEIA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
prosopopoeia is used in the context of the following news items.
A Brief Clarification about Populism
As is usual in such cases, ideological prosopopoeia has its heyday: markets started to talk as living person, expressing their “worry” at what will happen if the ... «teleSUR English, Apr 15»
A bullying, interfering waster: how politics gave the state a bad name
Endowing an animal, object or idea with human qualities like this has two names. It's called prosopopoeia if you want to empty a room, and personification if you ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Do Genius Annotations Help Us Understand Song Lyrics—or Bury …
Prosopopoeia!—before launching them at the McDonald's breakfast menu. Zechory has described Genius as “the equivalent of having a smart friend who knows ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 15»
Slavoj Žižek: The Urgent Necessity of a Syriza Victory in Greece
The mere possibility of a Syriza victory has sent ripples of fear through markets all around the world, and, as is usual in such cases, ideological prosopopoeia ... «In These Times, Jan 15»
Three essays on 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Gower, the ghostly narrator of Pericles, reduces the other personae to a “dumb show” which he voices over, an obvious prosopopoeia of the formative mind at ... «The Fortnightly Review, Dec 14»
B. Perona, Prosopopée et persona à la Renaissance
Erasmus, Rabelais, Louise Labé, Montaigne, and Verville invite us to “accept prosopopoeia”. The word “prosopopoeia” no longer has a strictly rhetorical sense: ... «Fabula, Dec 13»
Our Campus: UBC abuzz during 4th annual charity spelling bee
Both teams sent representatives to the stage, and in the end, Sauder's Jan Wallace won it for her team with the word “prosopopoeia.” The David Lam Library ... «Ubyssey Online, Nov 13»
Huzzah! The London EDITION is Now Opening on September 12
To celebrate the opening, Edition Hotels in collaboration with Sedition, the digital art collecting site, to offer Edition fans "Prosopopoeia" from artist Mat Collishaw. «HotelChatter, Jul 13»
Romans 1.26-7: The Bible 'Says' Homosexuality Is a Sin?
In literary rhetoric, this is called prosopopoeia. It includes the creation of a character in the work to whom you, if you were writing the letter, could dialogue with. «Huffington Post, Jul 13»
Rhetorical Style in Israel's Declaration of Independence
... synecdoche, parallelism, assonance, polysyndeton, and prosopopoeia—stylistic tools effectively used to enhance the resonance of their messaging. Like the ... «Algemeiner, Dec 12»
