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Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man had given it prominence as "the master trope of poetic discourse." James Paxson here offers a critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought. He reassesses early theories and examines the allegorical texts of Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland and Spenser to show how personification works as a complex artistic tool for revealing and advertising the problems and limits inherent in poetic or verbal creation.

Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man had given it prominence as "the master trope of poetic discourse." James Paxson here offers a critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought. He reassesses early theories and examines the allegorical texts of Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland and Spenser to show how personification works as a complex artistic tool for revealing and advertising the problems and limits inherent in poetic or verbal creation.

Have you ever thought that you could never live a life of faith like the heroes in the Bible? Caleb was an ordinary man. He wasn't a preacher, a politician, a CEO, or a first responder. He wasn't famous. He wasn't even a hero "He was an ordinary man living an extraordinary life not because of anything in himself or in his circumstances but solely because of his relationship to his God. We look at such men in public life and say, 'Surely God does not expect me to live as they.' If in the dawn of the spiritual history of God's people such an overcomer as Caleb could shine forth with such...