This article explores the significance of the art of memory as a mnemonic poetics in Philip Sidney’s literary theory and practice. The art of memory is more than an ancient mnemonic method, I argue; rather, it constitutes a poetics that evolves from Plato to Petrarch as part of an interdisciplinary dialogue and debate about how the past is remembered (particularly through love stories) and remade in the present. This tradition of mnemonic poetics is central to Sidney’s portrayal of the art of poetry as an art of memory in his Apology for Poetry, a tradition that Sidney remembers anew in his sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella. Sidney constructs his poem as a memory theatre in which he demonstrates and indeed dramatizes the art of memory i...
In the Astrophil and Stella, Sidney stresses the concrete dimension of poetic composition and often ...
Poesy...is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word Mimesis”—that is to say, a ...
Mnemonic Waters is a body of work that explores elements of memory, personal mythology, and storytel...
This article explores the significance of the art of memory as a mnemonic poetics in Philip Sidney’s...
International audienceThis article contemplates two clear goals: On the one hand I try to project a ...
There is a caricature of Marcel Proust in which the despairing writer is consoled by a friend saying...
There is a caricature of Marcel Proust in which the despairing writer is consoled by a friend saying...
This paper examines how, in Susan Howe’s long poem “Melville’s Marginialia,” memory affects the logi...
Mnemonic, a play conceived and directed by Simon McBurney and devised by Theatrede Complicite, words...
The Mnemonic Mirror is an artist-initiated project exploring the complex processes of memory.Though ...
This dissertation reads sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry (and, in one chapter, dram...
For centuries, memorisation was the vital mode through which the “uses of poetry” were realised. The...
Memory, essential in creative writing, inspires us to weave literary reading into the narrative of p...
The article presents a parallel between the processes of making art based on Paul Valéry’s poiesis, ...
The relation of the Muses in ancient Greece, especially during the archaic and the beginning of the ...
In the Astrophil and Stella, Sidney stresses the concrete dimension of poetic composition and often ...
Poesy...is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word Mimesis”—that is to say, a ...
Mnemonic Waters is a body of work that explores elements of memory, personal mythology, and storytel...
This article explores the significance of the art of memory as a mnemonic poetics in Philip Sidney’s...
International audienceThis article contemplates two clear goals: On the one hand I try to project a ...
There is a caricature of Marcel Proust in which the despairing writer is consoled by a friend saying...
There is a caricature of Marcel Proust in which the despairing writer is consoled by a friend saying...
This paper examines how, in Susan Howe’s long poem “Melville’s Marginialia,” memory affects the logi...
Mnemonic, a play conceived and directed by Simon McBurney and devised by Theatrede Complicite, words...
The Mnemonic Mirror is an artist-initiated project exploring the complex processes of memory.Though ...
This dissertation reads sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry (and, in one chapter, dram...
For centuries, memorisation was the vital mode through which the “uses of poetry” were realised. The...
Memory, essential in creative writing, inspires us to weave literary reading into the narrative of p...
The article presents a parallel between the processes of making art based on Paul Valéry’s poiesis, ...
The relation of the Muses in ancient Greece, especially during the archaic and the beginning of the ...
In the Astrophil and Stella, Sidney stresses the concrete dimension of poetic composition and often ...
Poesy...is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word Mimesis”—that is to say, a ...
Mnemonic Waters is a body of work that explores elements of memory, personal mythology, and storytel...