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	JOHN D. NORSEEN: "Images of Mind: The Semiotic Alphabet"
		Certain aspects of prosopopoeia, specific facial features indicating authority, and certain edge and top-bottom receptors, directly fire neuronal complexes in Area 17, as well as in the amygdala raising stress/anxiety reactions, and in the learned motor response complexes of the cerebellum.
		Prosopopoeia is the Greek word for the ability to call up human/other faces to derive useful information about the future.
		Prosopopoeia emanates from Area 17 and Area 18, and is triggered primarily in left Area 17 as a result of the final information laydown of the visual saccade.
	www.acsa2000.net /john2.html (11692 words)

	Smyth Dissertation Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SPENSER'S MNEMONICS OF LITERACY: THE MONUMENTALITY OF PROSOPOPOEIA
		If prosopopoeia means "face-making," then these two embody this principle in their continuously shifting identity, and as such become a prosopopoeia of prosopopoeia.
		Prosopopoeia, therefore, as a trope of literacy, evokes the specters of (phal)logocentrism which fully participates in, or as Luce Irigaray might say, "penetrates," the ideology of depth.
	www.anabiosispress.org /rsmyth/writings/diss/ch3.html (11108 words)

	CAMWS 2003: Elizabeth F. Mazurek
		Prosopopoeia and the Recognition of Paris: Ovid, Heroides 16
		As character impersonations the Heroides constitute exercises by the poet in prosopopoeia.
		Within each poem, however, the first-person narrator is also engaging in a type of self-portraiture as he or she attempts through letter writing to conjure an image of the self before the distant lover.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2003/abstracts2003/mazurek.html (549 words)

	Kelley, "Romantic Ambivalences I," JavaScript Endnotes, _Reinventing Allegory_ - Cambridge University Press @ Romantic ...
		Prosopopoeia refers to the presentation of an imaginary or absent person as if really present and speaking (or spoken to).
		Literally the giving of a face or voice to that which has neither, prosopopoeia is a disembodied, synecdochic figure for an absent speaker (Lanham, Handlist 83; Culler, "Apostrophe" 60-63).
		In its place, the revised text describes allegory and prosopopoeia as "comparisons conveyed in a particular form." Campbell's "room" may also suggest the use of fixed frames - rooms or boxed stages - to present magic-lantern shows to eighteenth-century viewers.
	www.rc.umd.edu /bibliographies/CUP/kelley/chapter/kelleynotes.html (1433 words)

	Prosopopoeia and the Limits of Performing Cicero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A careful re-reading of the sources indicates that the prosopopoeia of antiquity was, in fact, far more prosaic than that of our contemporary imaginations.
		Moreover, Quintilian advises control, lest the prosopopoeia resemble the mimicry typical of the comic actor (1.8.3).
		The disapproved manifestations of prosopopoeia mirror that of the stage actor who steps out of his principal role to ape the vocal mannerisms of another character (11.3.91).
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/corbeill.html (376 words)

	On "Protocols"
		Prosopopoeia: a rhetorical figure involving the adoption of the voices of the imagined, absent dead.]
		Possibly influenced by Nelly Sachs, whose "Dead Child Speaks" about "the knife of parting" from the mother (HP 67), Jarrell and Simic let imagined representatives of the one million Jewish children murdered by the Third Reich talk directly to the readers of their verse.
		And that is how you die." Whether washed and dried by the mother or held up by her, the children's experiences make a mockery of any solace that would embrace death as what Wallace Stevens called "the mother of beauty."
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/g_l/jarrell/protocols.htm (633 words)

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		While her study of autobiographical "prosopopoeia" doesn't offer a new theory for the study of autobiography, Rodriguez's study of structure and genre reveals many "layers of autobiography" at work in self-representation by women of color (16).
		A form of "personification that represents an imaginary, absent, or deceased person speaking or acting" in which, as De Mann asserts, one's name "is made as intelligible as a face," prosopopoeia serves as a trope for reading the self-representation of American women of color (4).
		A search for "face" is one in which Rodriguez reminds us that the American woman writer of color is engaged in "rhetorical and structural strategies of inversion" that readers are only recently coming to understand as necessary and unique "appropriations of personhood" in the face of objectification (51).
	facstaff.uww.edu /hoganj/Ortiz162.html (1521 words)

	Giving Up the Ghost
		prosopopoeia as the “fiction of the voice from-beyond-the-grave,” Paul de Man writes: “It is the figure of prosopopoeia, the fiction of an apostrophe to an absent, deceased, or voiceless entity, which posits the possibility of the latter’s reply, and confers upon it the power of speech.
		Prosopopoeia is the trope of autobiography, by which one’s name, as in the Milton poem, is made as intelligible and memorable as a face
		Since apostrophe and prosopopoeia so often involve a sensation of lossin the post-Enlightenment lyric as observed by commentators like de Man, Culler, and Hartmanin the elegiac tradition and the epitaphic texts of the Renaissance
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/garber2.htm (2871 words)

	Theory Example—reading—history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The veil interrupts the original basis of that most prevalent and essential of tropes, the trope of prosopopoeia, by which we ascribe a name, a face, or a voice to the absent, the inanimate, or the dead.
		The primary prosopopoeia, perhaps, is the one whereby we read the faces of those around us.
		Belief in the truth value of prosopopoeia is a piece of ideology so basic that it is hard to imagine a working and workable human society without it.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/N088/088042.htm (4929 words)

	Figures of Speech - It Figures - Corpses Come to Life! And Stimulate the Economy!
		The prosopopoeia was also one of the more popular oratorical techniques in ancient times.
		The digital magic might startle ancient rhetoricians, but they’d be familiar with the theory behind it.
		Prosopopoeia falls under the rubric of Ethos, or argument by character.
	www.figarospeech.com /it-figures/2005/7/28/corpses-come-to-life-and-stimulate-the-economy.html (294 words)

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		< as the "fiction of the voice from-beyond-the-grave," Paul de
		Man writes: "It is the figure of prosopopoeia, the fiction of an apostrophe
		Prosopopoeia is the trope of autobiography, by which one's name,
	www.shakespearefellowship.org /ubbthreads/printthread.php/Board/pubdiscuss/main/10801/type/post (268 words)

	"They moved..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was like they whispered from the freshly cut wood, as if something was waiting, already there.
		At the time I thought I was hearing things." prosopopeia also prosopopoeia* (pruh-so-puh-PEE-uh) noun; 2.
		A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.
	members.cox.net /douglas_and_sylvia/douglas_607.html (302 words)

	Reply to David Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The arguments about prosopopoeia and about history are of course different faces of the same argument.
		My focus is on the place of language in culture and on the need to teach “rhetorical reading” as the indispensable basis of cultural studies.
		He thus succumbs to the power of prosopopoeia (in the form that says, “behind every face there must be a sexual secret”) that I claim Hawthorne's story both presents and unveils as ideological mystification.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n088/088054.htm (2647 words)

	What is Prosopopeia? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To use the term of Aristotle, such personifications have energeia: they "bring things before the eyes." In other words, a personification makes the abstract visible and therefore comprehensible.
		Prosopopoeia also distinguishes between the embodiment of an abstract concept (allegory) and making the abstract live, move, and/or speak.
		An animal or an inanimate object is represented as having human attributes and addressed or made to speak as if it were human.
	virtual.park.uga.edu /eng3k/spring01/materials/prosopopoeia.htm (296 words)

	Johann Georg Hamann
		Hamann used the notion of ‘Prosopopoeia’, or personification, as an image of what can happen in philosophical reflection.
		In a medieval morality or mystery play, the experience of being chaste or being lustful is transformed from a way of acting or feeling into a dramatic character who then speaks and acts as a personification of that quality.
		These aspects are ennobled into faculties, and through ‘prosopopoeia’ are hypostasized into entities.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/hamann (6741 words)

	Performing Cicero - Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Impersonation, known by the general terms fictio personae in Latin and prosopopoeia in Greek, was a way to vary and animate a speech by summoning a figure to speak the orator’s sentiments in his (or her or its) own voice (cf.
		The device brought the orator’s style of performance ever closer to the actor’s and encouraged a certain grandeur of manner and style.
		Among the most famous prosopopoeiae in Roman oratory is a passage from Cicero’s speech in defense of Marcus Caelius where the advocate, having already cast Caelius’ jilted lover Clodia as the evil genius behind the prosecution, summons her distinguished ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus to shame and scold her for her conduct.
	cicero.humnet.ucla.edu /speech.htm (187 words)

	yourDictionary.com Agora Discussion Board
		Definition 1: (1) A rhetorical figure by which an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking or acting; the introduction of a pretended speaker; (2) personification (a rhetorical figure in which human traits are given to a non-human object).
		Usage 1: The spelling of today's word as "prosopopoeia" or "prosopopia" is encountered more often in the UK than in the US.
		For my money, all three terms -- personification, anthropomor[phism], and prosopopoeia -- refer to essentially the same concept: attributing human motivation, behavior, or characteristics to inanimate objects or animals.
	www.yourdictionary.com /cgi-bin/agora/agora.cgi?board=todays;action=display;num=1083929405 (1261 words)

	Death and Dying I
		Hardy's indecision about his wife's "prosopopoeia" dramatizes the mystery of Hamlet's "undiscovered country" even while his attention to what at least might be her "voice" emphasizes the plausibility of that puzzlingly unknown and familiar place.
		In "The Haunter," one of the most poignant examples of elegiac "prosopopoeia," Hardy evokes the pain of his ghostly wife, who cannot "let him know" how close her dead self is to his living one.
		And in a very different but equally bittersweet gesture of prosopopoeia, Dante Gabriel Rossetti imagines the speech of a dead woman just as her lover, left behind on earth, must himself imagine it.
	seeingthedifference.berkeley.edu /gilbert.html (2686 words)

	Semantic Antics
		"Prosopopoeia" is a word that I unearthed today.
		It's very difficult to spell and harder yet to say.
		Prosopopoeia is the personification of an inanimate thing.
	tenderbytes.net /forum/poemsplace/archive1/fpoemsplacefrm7bc88.html?topicID=200.topic (337 words)

	10ch8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Far from being naive, as at first sight it may seem, the use of prosopopoeia reflects the allegorization of the church in a sophisticated way.
		Suger's reinterpretation of the allegorization of the church in terms of transcendental idealism is one sign that long-standing assumptions about language and rhetoric were beginning to break down by the middle of the twelfth century.
		The portal of the church, properly decorated, might be able to lift the minds of worshipers to the "True Light," but it was there, not here, that Christ was the "true door." Henceforth, prosopopoeia in an inscription carved in stone could only be a mimesis of a speech act.
	www.luc.edu /publications/medieval/vol10/10ch8.html (5974 words)

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		The repetition underscores Othello's firmness in his decision to kill her and also his motives for doing so.
		Prosopopoeia or pathetic fallacy: "chaste stars"--foreshadowing Othello and Desdemona as star-crossed or ill-fated lovers and also the revelation that Desdemona is "holy true" and chaste.
		They also illuminate the fact that Othello highly values chastity and fidelity in women and that it is a source of honor or dishonor to him.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~iyengar/sampleIDs.html (1100 words)

	Patsy RICKS “Arise and Speak”: Resurrecting Cicero in Today’s Latin Classroom”
		Cicero himself gave me some guidelines in the Pro Caelio through his prosopopoeia of Appius Claudius Caecus.
		I have found Jon Hall and Robin Bond's video of Performing Cicero's Speeches to be an extremely valuable visual aid in understanding gestures, tone, and mood.
		Robin Bond gives a convincing delivery of Cicero's prosopopoeia of Appius Claudius in moving from an initial comic tone to a more serious conclusion.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/Ricks.html (456 words)

	Pope and the Allegorical Mode (main text)
		But the eighteenth century was heir to a great tradition of allegory and allegorical forms such as prosopopoeia (or personification), and the allegorical mode certainly played a significant if not dominant role in shaping the thought and expression of eighteenth-century poets from Dryden to Collins.
		In this essay, I intend to concentrate discussion on allegory and allegorical strategies in the poetry of Alexander Pope, but it is worthwhile to begin by looking briefly at some eighteenth-century perceptions of allegory.
		That is not to say that the very close relationship between allegory and personification was denied or ignored.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~mlhall/pope_main.htm (4042 words)

	Papers on Language and Literature: Allegory in the Rambler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net.
		That Johnson includes extended prosopopoeia in his periodical so as to "instruct by pleasing" (Shakespeare 7: 67) may seem too unremarkable to mention, let alone to require discussion.
		Given certain assumptions of modern reception theorists and critics, however, the point bears repeating.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3708/is_200104/ai_n8940036/pg_4 (875 words)

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	UCSB Department of English
		Making Faces: Forms of Prosopopoeia in Victorian Poetry
		Why were so many Victorian poets interested in prosopopoeia, or making faces?
		Caldwell traces the decline of clinical interest in the face and the proliferation of representations of faces in Victorian poetry, marking a shift in the ethical discourse of the period.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /events-detail.asp?EventID=278 (142 words)

	Art Journal: White-on-white: The overbearing whiteness of Warhol being.(Andy Warhol)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But he never meant shit to me 'cause he was straight up racist,
		In his essay "Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia," Jonathan Flatley persuasively argues that the use of a Pop aesthetic allowed Andy Warhol to gain access to the public sphere and "bring himself...
		The above preview is from Art Journal, March 22, 2003.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:99377974&refid=ip_almanac_hf (188 words)

	GraciousCall.org - Calvin: Commentaries - I The Bible
		He had already predicted the destruction of Judah, to which had been attached half the tribe of Benjamin.
		He put this mourning in dead Rachel's mouth by way of personification (prosopopoeia), which is very effective in rousing the feelings.
		Jeremiah did not use rhetoric merely to embellish his speech.
	www.graciouscall.org /books/calvin/calcom/calcomi4.html (1628 words)

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