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Mnemosyne : The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts by Mario Praz (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691252181
ISBN-139780691252186
eBay Product ID (ePID)26061472226
Product Key Features
Book TitleMnemosyne : the Parallel between Literature and the Visual Arts
Number of Pages280 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCriticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Art, Philosophy
AuthorMario Praz
Book SeriesThe A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition18
Reviews Mnemosyne is really a great tour down the centuries through galleries, libraries, churches, gardens, and salons, which at every point opens up surprising and penetrating views. Mr. Praz is a man whose breadth of culture is almost unmatched. His outlook is open and humane, his insight attractive, and his mind passionately curious: he has a phenomenal capacity for bringing valuable things out of hiding., The lectures constitute a tour de force and, as with everything from his pen, there is much that is new and stimulating. . . . After reading this admirable volume there can be little doubt that historians of art and literature--no less than the gentle reader--will learn much from it about the problems of seeking to establish parallels between the arts.
Series Volume Number16
Dewey Decimal700
SynopsisThe classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual arts In 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., In 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.
LC Classification NumberPN53
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