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  1. Machines of the mind
    personification in medieval literature
    Author: Breen, Katharine
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools for thought that help us... more

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    Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools for thought that help us to remember and manipulate complex ideas, testing them against existing moral and political paradigms. Specifically, different types of medieval personification should be seen as corresponding to positions in the rich and nuanced medieval debate over universals. Breen identifies three different types of personification - Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian - that gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters.

     
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  2. Machines of the mind
    personification in medieval literature
    Author: Breen, Katharine
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    "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... more

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    "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"--

     
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  3. Machines of the Mind
    Personification in Medieval Literature
    Author: Breen, Katharine
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Prudentian Personification -- 1. Consecratus Manu: Men Forming Gods Forming Men -- 2. How to Fight like a Girl: Christianizing Personification in the Psychomachia -- Part II:... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Prudentian Personification -- 1. Consecratus Manu: Men Forming Gods Forming Men -- 2. How to Fight like a Girl: Christianizing Personification in the Psychomachia -- Part II: Neoplatonic Personification -- 3. Ex Uno Omnia: Plato’s Forms and Daemons -- 4. Hello, Nurse! The Boethian Daemon -- Part III: Aristotelian Personification -- 5. E Pluribus Unum: Abstracting Universals from Particulars -- 6. Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d’Enfer and Winner and Waster -- 7. A Good Body Is Hard to Find: Putting Personification through Its Paces in Piers Plowman -- Notes -- Index In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools for thought that help us to remember and manipulate complex ideas, testing them against existing moral and political paradigms. Specifically, different types of medieval personification should be seen as corresponding to positions in the rich and nuanced medieval debate over universals. Breen identifies three different types of personification—Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian—that gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters. 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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226776620
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    Subjects: Literature; Literature, Medieval; Personification in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p)
  4. Machines of the Mind
    Personification in Medieval Literature
    Author: Breen, Katharine
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Prudentian Personification -- 1. Consecratus Manu: Men Forming Gods Forming Men -- 2. How to Fight like a Girl: Christianizing Personification in the Psychomachia -- Part II:... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Prudentian Personification -- 1. Consecratus Manu: Men Forming Gods Forming Men -- 2. How to Fight like a Girl: Christianizing Personification in the Psychomachia -- Part II: Neoplatonic Personification -- 3. Ex Uno Omnia: Plato’s Forms and Daemons -- 4. Hello, Nurse! The Boethian Daemon -- Part III: Aristotelian Personification -- 5. E Pluribus Unum: Abstracting Universals from Particulars -- 6. Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d’Enfer and Winner and Waster -- 7. A Good Body Is Hard to Find: Putting Personification through Its Paces in Piers Plowman -- Notes -- Index In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools for thought that help us to remember and manipulate complex ideas, testing them against existing moral and political paradigms. Specifically, different types of medieval personification should be seen as corresponding to positions in the rich and nuanced medieval debate over universals. Breen identifies three different types of personification—Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian—that gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters. 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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226776620
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    Subjects: Literature; Literature, Medieval; Personification in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p)
  5. Machines of the mind
    personification in medieval literature
    Author: Breen, Katharine
    Published: 2021; © 2021
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh,... more

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    Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh, nurse! The Boethian daemon -- Aristotelian personification. E pluribus unum : abstracting universals from particulars ; Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d'Enfer and Winner and waster -- A good body is hard to find : putting personification through the paces in Piers Plowman. "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"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226776620
    RVK Categories: EC 5127
    Subjects: Literature, Medieval; Literature; Personification in literature; Literature-Philosophy; Literature, Medieval-History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 365 Seiten)
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  6. Machines of the mind
    personification in medieval literature
    Author: Breen, Katharine
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    "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... more

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    "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"--

     
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  7. Machines of the mind
    personification in medieval literature
    Author: Breen, Katharine
    Published: 2021; © 2021
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh,... more

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    Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh, nurse! The Boethian daemon -- Aristotelian personification. E pluribus unum : abstracting universals from particulars ; Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d'Enfer and Winner and waster -- A good body is hard to find : putting personification through the paces in Piers Plowman. "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"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226776620
    RVK Categories: EC 5127
    Subjects: Literature, Medieval; Literature; Literature-Philosophy; Literature, Medieval-History and criticism; Personification in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 365 Seiten)
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