The Resource Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England, William E. Engel
Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England, William E. Engel
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- Summary
- This book is a cultural study of the ways men and women in early modern England confronted, accommodated, and paid tribute to mortal life and certain death. Drawing on prose and poetry, painting and statuary, social practices and religious rites, William Engel reopens central questions about Renaissance habits of thought. He explores how the metaphorics of that period signaled and enacted a continual revelation of mortality: the death of the body (figured as a kind of vehicle) and the eternality of the soul (that which was to be transported). Engel argues that early modern metaphorics was essentially mnemonic and emblematic, grounding itself in the relation of body and soul. Building on the work of Benjamin, Heidegger, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Eliade, the book provides contemporary readers with a key for recovering and understanding the critical assumptions underlying a mnemonically oriented principle of aesthetics
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
- Contents
-
- Recognizing representation's limits
- The seed of death and metaphor's end
- 3.
- Embodying the seed of melancholy : Montaigne and Florio :
- The site of writing
- The cite of memory
- The sight of death
- 4.
- Plotting the passage of death : Cervantes and Baudrillard :
- Visual parables of frames and margins
- 1.
- Macabre reflection, ingenious reversal, and graphic inversion
- Ludic and specular aspects of death unmasked
- Interlude :
- Janus and the ring
- 5.
- Transfiguring hieroglyphics : Browne and Heidegger :
- Mystical designs and patterns of melancholy
- Urn burial and Garden of Cyrus read as a memento mori diptych
- Reviewing models of representing the unviewable
- Construing the trace of memory : Giotto to broadsides :
- Mnemonic emblems and the organization of pictorial space
- Graphic itineraries and renaissance metaphorics
- The place of melancholy in "The map of mortalitie"
- 2.
- Imagining the shadow of death : Milton and Derrida :
- Portraying death as the other
- Isbn
- 9780585083421
- Label
- Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England
- Title
- Mapping mortality
- Title remainder
- the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England
- Statement of responsibility
- William E. Engel
- Subject
-
- English literature -- European influences
- Melancholy in literature
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 17e siècle
- England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
- Arts, Renaissance
- England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Death in literature
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 16e siècle
- Memory in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book is a cultural study of the ways men and women in early modern England confronted, accommodated, and paid tribute to mortal life and certain death. Drawing on prose and poetry, painting and statuary, social practices and religious rites, William Engel reopens central questions about Renaissance habits of thought. He explores how the metaphorics of that period signaled and enacted a continual revelation of mortality: the death of the body (figured as a kind of vehicle) and the eternality of the soul (that which was to be transported). Engel argues that early modern metaphorics was essentially mnemonic and emblematic, grounding itself in the relation of body and soul. Building on the work of Benjamin, Heidegger, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Eliade, the book provides contemporary readers with a key for recovering and understanding the critical assumptions underlying a mnemonically oriented principle of aesthetics
- Action
- digitized
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Engel, William E.
- Dewey number
- 820.9/354
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- Death in literature
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- England
- England
- English literature
- Melancholy in literature
- Memory in literature
- Arts, Renaissance
- Angleterre
- Angleterre
- Label
- Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England, William E. Engel
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
-
- Recognizing representation's limits
- The seed of death and metaphor's end
- 3.
- Embodying the seed of melancholy : Montaigne and Florio :
- The site of writing
- The cite of memory
- The sight of death
- 4.
- Plotting the passage of death : Cervantes and Baudrillard :
- Visual parables of frames and margins
- 1.
- Macabre reflection, ingenious reversal, and graphic inversion
- Ludic and specular aspects of death unmasked
- Interlude :
- Janus and the ring
- 5.
- Transfiguring hieroglyphics : Browne and Heidegger :
- Mystical designs and patterns of melancholy
- Urn burial and Garden of Cyrus read as a memento mori diptych
- Reviewing models of representing the unviewable
- Construing the trace of memory : Giotto to broadsides :
- Mnemonic emblems and the organization of pictorial space
- Graphic itineraries and renaissance metaphorics
- The place of melancholy in "The map of mortalitie"
- 2.
- Imagining the shadow of death : Milton and Derrida :
- Portraying death as the other
- Control code
- ocm43475479
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585083421
- Note
- eBooks on EBSCOhost
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43475479
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England, William E. Engel
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
-
- Recognizing representation's limits
- The seed of death and metaphor's end
- 3.
- Embodying the seed of melancholy : Montaigne and Florio :
- The site of writing
- The cite of memory
- The sight of death
- 4.
- Plotting the passage of death : Cervantes and Baudrillard :
- Visual parables of frames and margins
- 1.
- Macabre reflection, ingenious reversal, and graphic inversion
- Ludic and specular aspects of death unmasked
- Interlude :
- Janus and the ring
- 5.
- Transfiguring hieroglyphics : Browne and Heidegger :
- Mystical designs and patterns of melancholy
- Urn burial and Garden of Cyrus read as a memento mori diptych
- Reviewing models of representing the unviewable
- Construing the trace of memory : Giotto to broadsides :
- Mnemonic emblems and the organization of pictorial space
- Graphic itineraries and renaissance metaphorics
- The place of melancholy in "The map of mortalitie"
- 2.
- Imagining the shadow of death : Milton and Derrida :
- Portraying death as the other
- Control code
- ocm43475479
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585083421
- Note
- eBooks on EBSCOhost
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43475479
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 16e siècle
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 17e siècle
- Arts, Renaissance
- Death in literature
- England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
- England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- English literature -- European influences
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Melancholy in literature
- Memory in literature
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