LEADER 04101nam 2200733 450 001 9910465450703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61148-045-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000222696 035 $a(EBL)1767219 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001288838 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11734497 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288838 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11296408 035 $a(PQKB)10352979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1767219 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1767219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10909616 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL637738 035 $a(OCoLC)888746483 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000222696 100 $a20140830h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFigures of memory $efrom the muses to eighteenth-century British aesthetics /$fZsolt Koma?romy 210 1$aLanham, Maryland ;$aPlymouth, England :$cBucknell University Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 225 1 $aTransits : Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-06487-3 311 $a1-61148-044-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFigures Of Memory ; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Reproductive-Productive Dichotomy and Beyond; PART ONE : 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 327 $a4 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 a Figure of Memory; Memory and Imagination in the Theory of Association; Memory as the Model of Imagination in Gerard's Essay on Genius; iii. Using the Legacy of the Muses: Kames and Vivacity as a Figure of Memory; The "Vivacity" of Memory and Imagination; The "Complete Idea of Memory" in Kames's Elements of Criticism; iv. Conclusion; Works Cited; Index; About the Author 330 $aThis book effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century aesthetics with the aim of modifying received views on the role and fate of memory in the history of criticism. It argues that the philosophical problems characterizing conceptualizations of memory unsettle its opposition to the imagination and explain its relation to literary discourse. Moving from the Muses through Plato and Descartes to works by Pope, Addison, Gerard, and Kames, the book traces these problems through various ''figures'' representing notions of memory, and claims that eighteenth-century critical 410 0$aTransits (Bucknell University) 606 $aCriticism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aMemory in literature 606 $aImagination in literature 606 $aMemory (Philosophy) 606 $aImagination (Philosophy) 606 $aAesthetics, British$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aMemory in literature. 615 0$aImagination in literature. 615 0$aMemory (Philosophy) 615 0$aImagination (Philosophy) 615 0$aAesthetics, British 676 $a820.9/353 700 $aKoma?romy$b Zsolt$0976479 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465450703321 996 $aFigures of memory$92224412 997 $aUNINA