Book of the Heart

Name: Book of the Heart
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ISBN: 9780226391175

ISBN-10: 0226391175

ISBN-13: 9780226391175

Edition: 2001

Authors: Eric Jager

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In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metaphor when we speak of someone "reading" another's mind or a desire to "turn over a new leaf"--these phrases refer to the "book of the self," an idea that dates from the beginnings of Western culture. Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern day. He focuses especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modeled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art. For instance, medieval saints' legends tell of martyrs whose hearts…

Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Translations


Introduction



Origins



Augustine



The Scriptorium of the Heart



Lovers



Saints



Everyman



Picturing the Metaphor



After Gutenberg



Codex or Computer?


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Works Cited


Index