The Cast of Character – The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Mediev…

The Cast of Character\nby Warren Ginsberg\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Warren Ginsberg\nTitle: The Cast of Character\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1983\nISBN-13: 9781487599034\nISBN-10: 148759903X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThis 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.\nGinsberg first tests Ovid's concept in the Amores and the Metamorphoses against the conventions of.