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04061aam a2200469 i 4500 001 606036AE992D11EC82317EFE47ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220301010056 008 201113t20212021ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020051233 020 $a 022677659X 020 $a 9780226776590 020 $a 022677645X 020 $a 9780226776453 035 $a (OCoLC)1200577876 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d ERASA $d XFF $d GYG $d OCLCO $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN682.P475 $b B74 2021 082 00 $a 809/.02 $2 23 100 1 $a Breen, Katharine, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Machines of the mind : $b personification in medieval literature / $c Katharine Breen. 246 30 $a Personification in medieval literature 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 365 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t A good body is hard to find : putting personification through the paces in Piers Plowman. $g Part III: $t Prudentian personification. $t Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; $t How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- $g Part II: $t Neoplatonic personification. $t Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; $t Hello, nurse! The Boethian daemon -- $g Part III: $t Aristotelian personification. $t E pluribus unum : abstracting universals from particulars ; $t Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d'Enfer and Winner and waster ; $t A good body is hard to find : putting personification through the paces in Piers Plowman. 520 $a "Katharine Breen challenges our understanding of how medieval authors received philosophical paradigms from antiquity in their construction and use of personification in their writings. She shows that our modern categories for this literary device (extreme realism versus extreme rhetoric, or novelistic versus allegorical characters) would've been unrecognizable to their medieval practitioners. Through new readings of key authors and works--including Prudentius's "Psychomachia," Langland's "Piers Plowman," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," and Deguileville's "Pilgrimage of Human Life"--she finds that medieval writers accessed a richer, more fluid literary domain than modern critics have allowed. Breen identifies three different types of personification--Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian--inherited from antiquity that both gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters, while bypassing the modern confusion of conflicting relationships between personifications and persons on the path connecting divine power and human frailty. Recalling Gregory the Great's phrase "machinae mentis" (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, much the same way that, within the category of hand-tools, an open-end wrench differs in function from a hex-key wrench or a socket wrench. It will be read by medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as scholars interested in character-making and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Personification in literature. 650 0 $a Literature $x Philosophy. 650 7 $a Literature, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000151 650 7 $a Literature $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000005 650 7 $a Personification in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896080 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780226776620 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011358.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220301011019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=606036AE992D11EC82317EFE47ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search