In this book, Andres Escobedo revises the widespread scholarly view that associates literary personification with flat character, constraint, and death; instead, Escobedo demonstrates that premodern readers understood personification as an essentially energetic figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action

In this book, Andres Escobedo revises the widespread scholarly view that associates literary personification with flat character, constraint, and death; instead, Escobedo demonstrates that premodern readers understood personification as an essentially energetic figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action