| The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400 1200 Contributor(s): Carruthers, Mary J. (Author), Mary, Carruthers (Author), Minnis, Alastair (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521795419 ISBN-13: 9780521795418 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The study emphasizes meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental "pictures" for thinking and composing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 248.340 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.35 lbs) 456 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The study emphasizes meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental pictures for thinking and composing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carruthers, Mary: - Mary Carruthers is the author of The Craft of Thought (Cambridge 1998) and The Medieval Craft of Memory (University of Pennsylvania 2002) as well as of The Book of Memory (1990 and 2008). She divides her time between New York City and Oxford, where she holds the positions of Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University and Fellow of All Souls College. |