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9780521129923

The Mutable Glass: Mirror-imagery in titles and texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance

by Herbert Grabes , Translated by Gordon Collier
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    9780521129923

  • ISBN10:

    0521129923

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-02-04
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This 1982 book was the first major and comprehensive survey of mirror-imagery to be found in medieval book-titles and English literature from the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Working within the tradition of the historical study of metaphor as developed by E. R. Curtius, Professor Grabes not only traces the shifting historical usages of the mirror (as the metaphor's 'vehicle') but also studies the metaphor's structural function in individual works. At the same time, the author addresses himself to the aesthetic problem of originality in literature, and, by investigating the function of a metaphor central to literature over a long period of time, he reveals the interplay between cultural history, the changing attitude towards life and the world, and literary imagination. It represents a substantial contribution to the history of ideas and to the study of iconography, which, by providing a systematic and historical contextualisation of the many varied metaphorical senses of the mirror, will be of particular value to art and literary historians, and cultural philosophers.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Mirror as Title-Metaphor
History of the mirror-title in England
A typology of works bearing mirror-titles
Mirror-Conventions in Literature and Art
The multiplicity of mirrors
Originality: general conclusions
The concept of originality
The historical dimension of metaphor, aesthetics and ideas: the age of the mirror
Appendix
Notes
Indexical bibliography of primary references
General bibliography
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