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Vice Personification

Vice Personification is a literary device in the genre of morality plays whereby abstract moral qualities associated with sin or wickedness are embodied as individual characters, distinguished by their function of personifying specific vices to dramatize the ethical struggles of the human soul.

10

Publications

605

Citations

12

Authors

4

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Publications

10

Plutarch's "Lives": Exploring Virtue and Vice

Frederick E. Brenk, Tim Duff · The Classical World · 2002 · 251 citations

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Sensual Surfaces and Stylistic Excess: The Pleasure and Politics of Miami Vice

Cathy Schwichtenberg · Journal of Communication Inquiry · 1986 · 86 citations

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Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy

Alison Cornish, Patrick Boyde · Italica · 2001 · 83 citations

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The Stranger's Stratagem: Self-Disclosure and Self-Sufficiency in Greek Culture

Glenn W. Most · The Journal of Hellenic Studies · 1989 · 61 citations

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Heaven upon Earth' and 'characters of Vertues and Vices.'

Notes and Queries · 1949 · 33 citations

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Authors

12

  1. JA
    James A. Montmarquet

    Tennessee State University, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  2. CS
    Cathy Schwichtenberg

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    1 publications · 86 citations

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  3. GW
    Glenn W. Most

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

    1 publications · 61 citations

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  4. AC
    Alison Cornish

    Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia

    1 publications · 83 citations

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  5. PB
    Patrick Boyde

    1 publications · 83 citations

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Institutions

4

  1. Tennessee State University

    Nashville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  2. University of Iowa

    Iowa City, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    86 citations

  3. Universität Innsbruck

    Innsbruck, Austria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    61 citations

  4. Smith College

    Northampton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

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Venues

  1. The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

    1 publications · 20 citations

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  2. Renaissance Drama

    1 publications · 29 citations

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  3. Eighteenth-Century Studies

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. Journal of Communication Inquiry

    JCI · 1 publications · 86 citations

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  5. Italica

    1 publications · 83 citations

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