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Plotting Gothic /

A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Three Eyewitnesses of Gothic
  • 1. Villard de Honnecourt: Ymagier and Interlocutor
  • 2. Gervase of Canterbury: Cronicus and Logistics Man
  • 3. Suger, Abbot of S-Denis, and the Rhetoric of Persuasion: Manipulating Reality and Producing Meaning
  • Part II. Staking Out the Plot
  • 4. Interlocutor and Monument
  • 5. Material Contexts: The Means of Production
  • 6. The Production of Meaning
  • Part III. Animating the Plot
  • 7. Picturing the Three Agents of Construction
  • 8. The Cathedral as Object of Desire
  • 9. Conclusion: Gothic Plots-Synchronic, Diachronic, and Spatial
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index