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Reading Images : Narrative Discourse and Reception in the Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Apocalypse by Lewis, S - 1995
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1995. Cloth, small 4to, 27 cm,. xxv, 459 pp, 252 ills. From a review in Studies in Iconography, by Rosemary Muir Wright: "Reading Images is an exceptional book.. The book draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary material that is divided into primary and secondary references in a clearly laid out and easily accessed bibliography. Indeed, Suzanne Lewis's book is something like a medieval summa, an encyclopedia of what is known about the illuminated Apocalypse and a mirror of how it was received... an appendix [provides] a census of the extant thirteenth-century English illustrated Apocalypses, which allows the reader to pursue particular manuscripts in detail. Reading Images is an excellent preparation for the study of any thirteenth-century Apocalypse cycle, for it establishes a mode of pictorial discourse and a context of response appropriate to the given commentary and to the historical situation of the manuscript's production." Contents: Introduction. Apocalypsis depictus: A Book of Visions - pt. I. Decoding the Thirteenth-Century Apocalyptic Discourse. 1. Auctor et Auctoritas: St. John as Seer, Author, Preceptor, and Pilgrim. 2. Problems of Archetype, Genre, and Narrative. 3. The Narrative Paradigm: A Synchronic View - pt. II. Locating the Thirteenth-Century Reader in the Book. 4. The Ideology of the Book: Referencing Contemporary Crisis within Specular Structures of Power. 5. Transactional Experiences Encoded in the Imaged Text. 6. Picturing Other Visions: Expanding the Reader's Experience of the Book in Three Appended Cycles of Illustration - Appendix: Census and Bibliography of Thirteenth-Century English Apocalypses. From the blurb: "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. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.
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- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1995
- Date Published 1995
- Pages xxv, 459 pp, 252 ills
- Keywords Lewis, Suzanne Bible.Revelation -- Illustrations. Bible.N.T.. Revelation -- Illustrations. Bible.Revelation. Bible 13th thirteenth century 0521479207
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