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Mnemosyne : The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts / Mario Praz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023]Copyright date: 1970Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) : 121 b/w illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691252193
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700 23/eng/20231018
LOC classification:
  • PN53 .P7 1974
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- I "Ut Pictura Poesis" -- II Time Unveils Truth -- III Sameness of Structure in a Variety of Media -- IV Harmony and the Serpentine Line -- V The Curve and the Shell -- VI Telescopic, Microscopic, and Photoscopic Structure -- VII Spatial and Temporal Interpenetration -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have long shared. Praz explains that within literature, each epoch has “its peculiar handwriting or handwritings, which, if one could interpret them, would reveal a character, even a physical appearance,” and while these characteristics belong to the general style of a given period, the personality of the writer does not fail to pierce through. Praz contends that something similar occurs in art. He shows how the likeness between the arts within various periods of history can ultimately be traced to structural similarities that arise out of the characteristic way in which the people of a certain epoch see and memorize facts aesthetically. Mnemosyne, at once the goddess of memory and the mother of the muses, presides over this view of the arts. In illustrating her influence, Praz ranges widely through Western sources, providing an incomparable tour of the literary and pictorial arts.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- I "Ut Pictura Poesis" -- II Time Unveils Truth -- III Sameness of Structure in a Variety of Media -- IV Harmony and the Serpentine Line -- V The Curve and the Shell -- VI Telescopic, Microscopic, and Photoscopic Structure -- VII Spatial and Temporal Interpenetration -- NOTES -- INDEX

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The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have long shared. Praz explains that within literature, each epoch has “its peculiar handwriting or handwritings, which, if one could interpret them, would reveal a character, even a physical appearance,” and while these characteristics belong to the general style of a given period, the personality of the writer does not fail to pierce through. Praz contends that something similar occurs in art. He shows how the likeness between the arts within various periods of history can ultimately be traced to structural similarities that arise out of the characteristic way in which the people of a certain epoch see and memorize facts aesthetically. Mnemosyne, at once the goddess of memory and the mother of the muses, presides over this view of the arts. In illustrating her influence, Praz ranges widely through Western sources, providing an incomparable tour of the literary and pictorial arts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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