Figures of memory from the muses to eighteenth-century British aesthetics
This book effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century aesthetics with the aim of modifying received views on the role and fate of memory in the history of criticism. It argues that the philosophical problems characterizing conceptualizations of memory unsettle its oppositio...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg [Pa.] :
Bucknell University Press : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Transits: literature, thought, & culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34706409*spi |
| Sumario: | This book effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century aesthetics with the aim of modifying received views on the role and fate of memory in the history of criticism. It argues that the philosophical problems characterizing conceptualizations of memory unsettle its opposition to the imagination and explain its relation to literary discourse. Moving from the Muses through Plato and Descartes to works by Pope, Addison, Gerard, and Kames, the book traces these problems through various ''figures'' representing notions of memory, and claims that eighteenth-century critical. |
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| Descripción Física: | viii, 225 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781611480450 |
