Mary Carruthers
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Professor Mary Carruthers (born January 15, 194
1) is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature and Professor of English, emerita, at New York University
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She has written widely on medieval literature and rhetoric
, memory and mnemonic techniques, and the history of spirituality.
194
Year 194 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius...
1) is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature and Professor of English, emerita, at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
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She has written widely on medieval literature and rhetoric
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...
, memory and mnemonic techniques, and the history of spirituality.
Publications:
- Rhetoric Beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010.
- Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: The Cherub Figure and the Arts of Memory. Gesta 48 (2009): 1-19.
- Varietas: a word of many colours. Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Munich, Germany), Fall 2009: 33-54.
- The Book of Memory: Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008.
- Mechanisms for the transmission of culture: the role of 'place' in the arts of memory. In Translatio, the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages. ed Laura Hollengreen. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols), 2008: 1-26.
- Sweetness. Speculum 81 (2006): 999-1013.
- On affliction and reading, weeping and argument: Chaucer's lachrymose Troilus in context. Representations 93 (2006): 1-21.
- The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. ed. with J. M. Ziolkowski. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002.
- The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric. and the Making of Images. 400-1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998.
- The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990.
- Acts of Interpretation: The Text in Its Contexts. 700-1600. ed. with Elizabeth D. Kirk. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books. 1982.
- The Search for St. Truth: A Study of Meaning in Piers Plowman. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 1973.
- The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions essay