Reading Images: Narrative Discourse and Reception in the Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Apocalypse - Couverture rigide

Lewis, Suzanne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521479207 ISBN 13 : 9780521479202

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Examines the text, images and readers of medieval Apocalypse manuscripts.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Reading Images focuses on the multi-layered relationships between the textual image and its reader-viewer in the Apocalypse manuscripts produced in England during the thirteenth century, a period of profound changes in the social and cultural fabric. The exponential expansion in the production and dissemination of illuminated manuscripts that occurred at this time provided a critical, cultural mechanism for the creation of new technologies of the self. Within the framework of this newly-discernible subjectivity, Suzanne Lewis examines how reader-viewers cultivated the art of memory and contemporary theories of vision, which invested images with the power to promote memory and offer spiritual sustenance, and also to articulate and activate dominant ideological positions regarding the self, society, and the 'other'. As the Apocalypse narrative was visualised in pictures, it became a powerful paradigm within which problematic contemporary experiences such as anti-Judaism, the later Crusades, and expectations of the world's end could be defined. Reading Images explores the kinds of contemporary mythologies that constitute ideology, a realm in which visual representation becomes an agent rather than a reflector of social change.

Revue de presse

"Reading Images is a work of creative primary scholarship that offers a fundamental symbolic semantics to the interpretation of the images of the Apocalypse in the private act of reading....Lewis's work offers a fresh interpretation not only of the multifaceted interpenetration of text and image in its cultural context but more fundamentally as the cultural configuration of the upper class, thirteenth-century self." World Trade

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521479207
• ISBN 13: 9780521479202
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 489
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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