An edition of Mapping mortality (1995)

Mapping mortality

the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England

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An edition of Mapping mortality (1995)

Mapping mortality

the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England

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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.

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English
Pages
287

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Mapping mortality: the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England
1995, University of Massachusetts Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Amherst
Series
Massachusetts studies in early modern culture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/354
Library of Congress
PR428.D4 E54 1995, PR428.D4E54 1995, PR428.D4 E54 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 287 p. :
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL780907M
Internet Archive
mappingmortality00enge_0
ISBN 10
0870239988
LCCN
95012794
OCLC/WorldCat
32469650
Library Thing
6310266
Goodreads
249142

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