Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England: Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Autor William E. Engelen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 ian 1996
A combined philosophical and literary approach to intellectual history and the arts showing the extent to which Renaissance cognitive processes and symbol systems were mnemonic in both conception and application, often based on the relation of body and soul over, and through, time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780870239984
ISBN-10: 0870239988
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Seria Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
ISBN-10: 0870239988
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Seria Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Recenzii
". . . a thoughtful and humane book . . ."—Sixteenth Century Journal
"William Engel is a master teacher [whose] diction is striking, precise, and memorable."—Sewanee Review
". . . the novelty of Engel's approach is the rigour with which he argues his case for seeing all these large topics [mortality, memory, and melancholy] as closely interdependent for a range of writers."—Review of English Studies
". . . as cleverly conceived as it is cleverly written. It rivets the attention . . . [and] will be remembered as a major contribution . . . [a] considerable addition to intellectual history."—Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"William Engel is a master teacher [whose] diction is striking, precise, and memorable."—Sewanee Review
". . . the novelty of Engel's approach is the rigour with which he argues his case for seeing all these large topics [mortality, memory, and melancholy] as closely interdependent for a range of writers."—Review of English Studies
". . . as cleverly conceived as it is cleverly written. It rivets the attention . . . [and] will be remembered as a major contribution . . . [a] considerable addition to intellectual history."—Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
Notă biografică
William E. Engel is an independent scholar, freelance tutor and author of Education & Anarchy. He has been Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, and Folger Shakespeare Library; Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; and is currently Visiting Professor at The University of the South.