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Zusatztext One great contribution of this book is that it grants the memory arts an expanded arena of influence; it shows that mnemonic principles served as 'a fundamental feature of the organization...of knowledge in general' in this period. Informationen zum Autor William Engel is an independent scholar and freelance tutor; author of Education & Anarchy (University Press of America, 2001) and Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995). He has been Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University (1988-95), Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Klappentext Drawing on a range of works from the English Renaissance, Death and Drama in Renaissance England offers a novel way to understand, in their original contexts, key aspects of Renaissance mental life and letters. Focusing on the classical Memory Arts, William Engel explores issues of death and decline in exemplary dramas, dictionaries, and histories of the period, and demonstrates the ways in which emblems and memory images were used to communicate special meanings. Zusammenfassung Using period source material, this text discusses how we might understand, in context, aspects of Renaissance mental life and letters. Focusing on "memory arts", it explores issues of death and decline in literature, showing how memory images were used to communicate special meanings. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations Note on conventions used in the text Preface Introduction: 'Take Away But One Letter': The Spirit of Decline I. Staging kinetic emblems of fatal destiny 1: 'Commonplaces of memory': visual regimes and charmed spaces 2: 'But yet each circumstance I taste not fully': spectacles of ruin II. The true work of translation 3: 'Touching my translation': linguistic decorum and memory's domain III. The marrow and moral of history 4: 'O eloquent, iust, and mighty Death!': ending The History of the World 5: 'More easie to the readers memory': using The History of the World Conclusion: 'Simulars of the dead': a final declension Appendix: The end of Ralegh's History of the World Bibliography Index ...
