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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Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
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Table of Contents:
- Figures OfMemory ; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Reproductive-Productive Dichotomyand Beyond; PARTONE : On Notions of Memory; 1 Memory/Imagination: The Representational Model; 2 Conceptual Cruxes: Plato and the Aporia of Memory; i. "Ridiculous Birdcages or Waxen Slabs":Figures of Representational Memory; ii. Plato and the Muses: Self-Validating Memory; iii. The Function of Cruxes: Memory Validating the Imagination; 3 Mnemonic Practice: The Constructive Model; i. Mnemonic Discourse; ii. Constructive Memory; PART TWO:Figures of Memory in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics.
- 4 Mixing Tracesi. Descartes and Memory's Fluid Motions; ii. Pope's Melting Wax; 5 Mnemonic Imagination; i. Violent Spirits: Addison's Cartesian Concerns; ii. Analogous Exertions: Gerard and Associationism as aFigure of Memory; Memory and Imagination in the Theory of Association; Memory as the Model of Imagination in Gerard'sEssay on Genius; iii. Using the Legacy of the Muses: Kames and Vivacity as aFigure of Memory; The "Vivacity" of Memory and Imagination; The "Complete Idea of Memory" in Kames's Elementsof Criticism; iv. Conclusion; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.