The American Art of Memory

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" The American Art of Memory "
John Michael Corrigan

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081982
Doc. No	:	LA125611
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02501003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	John Michael Corrigan
Title & Author	:	The American Art of Memory [Article]\ John Michael Corrigan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2021
Volume/ Issue Number	:	25/1-2
Page No	:	70–98
Abstract	:	This article provides a genealogy of the architectural figuration of human cognition from the ancient world to Renaissance Europe and, finally, to the American Renaissance where it came to possess a striking cultural and literary potency. The first section pursues the two-fold task of elucidating this archetypal trope for consciousness, both its ancient moorings and its eventual transmission into Europe. The second section shows that three of the most prominent writers of the American Renaissance—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne—engaged this mystically inspired architectonic symbolism, employing far older techno-cultural suppositions about interior space. I thereby offer an account of the intellectual and spiritual heritage upon which Romantic writers in the United States drew to articulate cognitive interiority. These Romantics did more than value creativity in contradistinction to Enlightenment rationalism; they were acknowledging themselves as recipients of the ancient belief in cosmogenesis as self-transformation.
Descriptor	:	American Renaissance
Descriptor	:	American transcendentalism
Descriptor	:	architecture
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	cognition
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	esotericism
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	memory
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Romanticism
Descriptor	:	selfhood
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02501003‬