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...