Machines of the Mind
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-77659-0 (ISBN)
Through a series of new readings of major authors and works, from Plato to Piers Plowman, Breen illuminates how medieval personifications embody the full range of positions between philosophical realism and nominalism, varying according to the convictions of individual authors and the purposes of individual works. Recalling Gregory the Great’s reference to machinae mentis (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, employing methods of personification as tools that serve different functions. Machines of the Mind offers insight for medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as for scholars interested in literary character-building and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages.
Katharine 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.
Acknowledgments
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
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2021 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 513 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-77659-X / 022677659X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-77659-0 / 9780226776590 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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