Machines of the mind : personification in medieval literature / Katharine Breen.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via University Press Scholarship Online)
Main Author:	Breen, Katharine, 1973- (Author)
Other title:	Chicago scholarship online.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Series:	Chicago scholarship online.
Subjects:	Literature, Medieval > History and criticism. Personification in literature. Allegory. Literature > Philosophy.