Judging a book by its cover”
Meditation, memory, and invention in seventeenth-century Ukrainian title pages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9642004 |
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| Authors | Maria Grazia Bartolini (0000-0001-8181-5364, University of Milan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 21-55 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Slavonic Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-5006 • E-ISSN: 2375-2475 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00085006.2017.1302644 |
| OpenAlex | W2605761592 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This article concerns the use of visual paratexts in seventeenth-century Ukraine, and of illustrated title pages in particular. The books under analysis represent three crucial monuments of seventeenth-century Ukrainian sacred oratory. These are: Lazar Baranovych’s Truby sloves propovidnykh na narochityia dni prazdnikov (Kyiv, 1674), and Antonii Radyvylovs'kyi’s Ohorodok Marii Bohorodytsy (Kyiv, 1676) and his Vinets Khrystov z propovidii nedelnykh (Kyiv, 1688). The author concentrates on the “cognitive” aspect of their titular pages, dealing with them as a rhetorical process that emphasizes meditation, invention, and memory. More specifically, she investigates the correlation between the visual and the written as a specific literary-figurative “mode of thought” that stands in a long Christian tradition of expounding images as meditational tools. She shows how Baranovych and Radyvylovs'kyi interact with this tradition, arguing that their title pages provide readers-viewers with both a machina meditativa, a meditative apparatus for reflecting upon the mystery of the Incarnation, and a machina rhetorica, a repertory of images that the users of the books, often themselves preachers, could use to compose new texts
Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Meditation · Rhetorical question · Theology · Ukrainian · Classics · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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| Highly cited | No |
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