BRAND NEW THE CAST OF CHARACTER THE REPRESENTATION OF PERSONALITY Philip Knight

Description: BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION hardcover, clean NEWtext, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke-free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage wear; WE SHIP FAST.Carefully packed and quickly sent. This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques and perspectives from rhetoric, philosophy, and sometimes theology to fashion figures who define not only themselves but also their readers. Ginsberg first tests Ovid's concept in the Amores and the Metamorphoses against the conventions of classical tradition and shows how, although Ovid's idea of character did not change, his technique grew more subtle and complex as his art matured. Ginsberg then employs the methods of biblical exegesis to show how medieval characters – Gottfried's Tristan, Dante's Farinata, Chrétien's Yvain – both exist as themselves and point to characters beyond themselves, gaining depth and resonance because we see them in this perspective. Perspective is also a distinguishing quality of the maturing of Boccaccio's art. In the early works his characters seem to be little more than positions in a debate, but as he grew more skilful the strict formalism of binary oppositions gave way to the complexity of experience characteristic of the 'probably true' and culminating in the hundred perspectives of the Decameron. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales the pilgrims are both typical and individual, twice-formed by the tale and by the frame. A character acts, and the reader forms expectations of his acting and in the process 'character,' the abiding glory of medieval literature, is created. 3 01 120

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Type: Hardcover

Publication Name: University of Toronto Press

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ISBN-10: 0802055966

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Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Publication Year: 1983

Book Title: Cast of Character : the Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature

Topic: Medieval, Personality, Ancient & Classical

Number of Pages: 208 Pages

Language: English

Genre: Literary Criticism, Psychology, Literary Collections

Author: Warren Ginsberg

Format: Hardcover