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Speaking Spirits

Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy

by Sherry Roush
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors...
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