Colors of the Mind : : Conjectures on Thinking in Literature / / Angus Fletcher.
Angus Fletcher is one of our finest theorists of the arts, the heir to I. A. Richards, Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye. This, his grandest book since the groundbreaking Allegory of 1964, aims to open another field of study: how thought--the act, the experience of thinking--is represented in literature...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) :; 1h |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Representing Thought
- 1. Iconographies of Thought
- 2. Two Frames in the Iconography of Thinking: The Satanic and the Quixotic
- 3. The Distractions of Wit in the English Renaissance
- 4. Standing, Waiting, and Traveling Light: Milton and the Drama of Information
- Part II. Representative Thinking
- 5. Allegorical Secrecy, Gnomic Obscurity
- 6. The Language-Game of Prophecy in Renaissance Poetics
- 7. The Father of Lies
- 8. Dipintura: The Visual Icon of Historicism in Vico
- 9. Threshold, Sequence, and Personification in Coleridge
- 10. Silence and the Voice of Thought
- 11. Music and the Code of the Ineffable: Visconti's Death in Venice
- 12. The Image of Lost Direction
- 13. Style and the Extreme Situation
- 14. Stevens and the Influential Gnome
- Notes
- Index