Personification

Embodying Meaning and Emotion
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31042-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 756 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1225 g

Reihe: Intersections

Personification, or prosopopeia, the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or ‘face’, is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure’s cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited sustained scholarly attention. The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, France, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries. Personification is susceptible to an approach that balances semiotic analysis, focusing on meaning effects, and phenomenological analysis, focusing on presence effects produced through bodily performance. This dual approach foregrounds the full scope of prosopopoeic discourse—not just the what, but also the how, not only the signified, but also the signifier.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melion, Walter

Ramakers, Bart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

Personification: An Introduction
Walter S. Melion and Bart Ramakers

PART 1 - Cognitive Perspectives on Personification

1. Allegorical Personification and Embodied Cognition
Jean Bocharova

PART 2 - Personification and the Critical Tradition

2. Dante and St. Francis: Shaping Lives, Reshaping Allegory
Jeremy Tambling

3. Personification, Power, and the Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry
William Rhodes

4. The Personification of the Human Subject in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Brenda Machosky

PART 3 - Personification and the Modalities of Figuration

5. Framework, Personification, and Pisanello’s Poetics
C. Jean Campbell

6. The Triumph of Truth in an Age of Confessional Conflict
James Clifton

7. The Mystical Experience—Between Personification and Incarnation: The Idea Vitae Teresianae Iconibus Symbolicis Expressa (Antwerp, Jacob Mesens: 1680s)
Ralph Dekoninck

PART 4 - Personification on Stage: Forces of Living Presence

8. From the Parade to the Stage: Evolution and Significance of Personifications in Lyon’s Sotties (1566–1610)
Katell Lavéant

9. Personification in Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three Estates
Greg Walker

10. Both One and the Other: The Educational Value of Personification in the Female Humanist Theatre of Peeter Heyns (1537–1598)
Alisa van de Haar

11. Dirty from Behind, Pearly in Front: Lady World in Rhetoricians’ Drama
Bart Ramakers

12. Mute Poem, Speaking Picture: The Personification of the Paragone in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens
Jennifer A. Royston

13. The Politics of Personification in the Jacobean Lord Mayors’ Shows
Susan L. Anderson

PART 5 - Jesuit Approaches to Personification

14. Figured Personification and Parabolic Embodiment in Jan David’s Occasio Arrepta, Neglecta
Walter S. Melion

15. Double Meaning of Personification in Early Modern Thesis Prints of the Southern Low Countries: Between Noetic and Encomiastic Representation
Gwendoline De Mûelenaere

16. Vermeer, the Art of Meditation, and the Allegory of Faith
Aneta Georgievska-Shine

PART 6 - Personifying Charity

17. Personifications of Caritas as Reflexive Figures
Caecilie Weissert

18. Maarten van Heemskerck’s Caritas: Personifiying Virtue, Animating Stone With Paint,
Imaging the Image Debate
Arthur J. Difuria

19. Abraham Bloemaert and Caritas: A Lesson in Perception
Caroline O. Fowler

PART 7 - Personifying Life and Afterlife, Trial and Retribution

20. The Duchess and the Cadaver: Doubling and Microarchitecture in Late Medieval Art (with Alice Chaucer and John Lydgate)
Elizabeth Fowler

21. ‘But You Are Blind, and Know Not What Is in You’: ‘A.L’, the Fraudulent Judge, and the Coerced Conscience
June Waudby

PART 8 - Personification and the Assertion of Allegorical Order

22. Precarious Personification: Fortuna in the Artist’s Cabinet
Lisa Rosenthal

23. Producing the Legible Body: Personification, the Beholder, and Tiepolo’s Würzburg Frescos
Max Weintraub

PART 9 - The Four Continents: Sources and Sentiments

24. The Personification of Africa with an Elephant-Head Crest in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (1603)
Joaneath Spicer

25. The Four Continents in Seventeenth-Century Embroidery and the Making of English Femininity
Heather A. Hughes

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published monographs, edited volumes, and articles on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius. He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Bart Ramakers is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature at the University of Groningen. He specialises in medieval and sixteenth-century drama and has a particular interest in the intersections between performative and visual culture. He is an editor of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (NKJ).