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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. :
Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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: | 1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611480450 1611480450 |