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It is a literary term that refers to the act of giving human characteristics or qualities to non-human beings or objects. You can use 'prosopopoeia' when discussing literature, particularly when analyzing characters and their traits. For example, "The poet's skilled use of prosopopoeia in the poem allowed the reader to empathize with the tree as it faced the harshness of winter."
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I have no clue (well, one) if the philosopher Paul de Man was on their reading list (he isn't mentioned), but it seems relevant that he believed prosopopoeia is "the trope of autobiography," meaning it's a representation.
Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia is a hybrid novella, a work of postmodern elegy that narrates the death of a young man from AIDS.
As must have happened when the world was born, the violence of rhythms, the explosion of sounds gave life: tectonic movements between classes of phonemes, torrential rains, lava in the making … Translated from the French by Aditi Machado Aditi Machado's translation of Prosopopoeia will appear from Action Books in late 2016.
Her first book of poems, Some Beheadings, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books, and her translation of Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia will be published by Action Books.
Instead of imploding, he fends off one assault after another, some self-induced, as when his publisher (Henrik Mestad) solemnly suggests that Erik change his imposingly titled novel, "Prosopopoeia," to "Prozac-and-Pee".
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Hamann used the notion of 'Prosopopoeia', or personification, as an image of what can happen in philosophical reflection.
These aspects are ennobled into faculties, and through 'prosopopoeia' are hypostasized into entities.
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