| In the short stories, disease and illness are deployed as prosopopoeia, the cruelly indifferent natural forces that control life and death. |
| These stories exercise a powerful hold upon the imagination, even though prosopopoeia plays a role in the visions not markedly different from its role in the genealogies. |
| The paradoxes of citation and prosopopoeia common to the virtuoso and to the writer are threads that run through chapters six through eight. |
| But in the lyric, the soliloquy is the norm, and many conversations are imaginary, notably in the projective modes of apostrophe and prosopopoeia. |
