Mary Carruthers (Professor and New York University Fellow)

The Craft of Thought

Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400 1200
Herausgeber: Minnis, Alastair

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780521795418
• ISBN-10: 0521795419
• Artikelnr.: 22097142

Autorenporträt

Mary Carruthers is the author of The Craft of Thought (Cambridge 1998) and The Medieval Craft of Memory (University of Pennsylvania 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

1. Collective memory and memoria rerum
Part I. An Architecture for Thinking
Part II. Memoria Rerum, Remembering Things: 2. 'Remember heaven': the aesthetics of Mneme
3. Cognitive images, meditation, and ornament
4. Dream vision, picture, and 'the mystery of the bed chamber'
5. 'The place of the tabernacle'.