Mary Carruthers

The Book of Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fully revised and updated edition of this influential work of scholarship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1020g
• ISBN-13: 9780521888202
• ISBN-10: 0521888204
• Artikelnr.: 23414118

Autorenporträt

Mary Carruthers is the author of The Craft of Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and The Medieval Craft of Memory (2002) as well as of The Book of Memory (1990 and 2008). She divides her time between New York City and Oxford, where she holds the positions of Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University and Fellow of All Souls College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1. Models for the memory
2. Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory
3. Elementary memory design
4. The arts of memory
5. Memory and the ethics of reading
6. Memory and authority
7. Memory and the book
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index of manuscripts
General index.