Monday, August 14, 2006

"Slowly I turned..."

Step by step, inch by inch...

(Faithful backlink here. Everchanging forelink here.)

[title of this post, courtesy of America's rich vaudeville tradition]

posted by lisa schamess @ 00:05 

2 Comments:

Blogger John said...

Oh, cool! Thanks for the link to Danteworlds. This might be interesting dissertation fodder. Francis Yates first suggested that The Inferno might be a literary memory palaces, Mary Carruthers argues this as well (it functions via cognitive images and is a product for meditation), and Mark Turner and Giles Fauconnier talk about the various images as examples of conceptual blending.

8/15/2006 11:00:00 AM  
Blogger lisa schamess said...

my pleasure. the concentricities of that story fascinate me (regrettably, in theory more than in the actual reading).

has anyone yet written about the complex narrative shapes our minds assume around oft-told tales from once-written books? In other words, the vividness (and borderline apocrypha) of our own mental and verbal "maps" of these great works? Food or fodder for some memory scholar...

(WV today esp. good: ttzzel, how one feels when discussion and ideas are really cooking)

8/16/2006 04:03:00 PM  

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