The Book of the Heart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/2000
Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern day. He focuses especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modeled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art. For instance, medieval saints' legends tell of martyrs whose hearts recorded divine inscriptions; lyrics and romances feature lovers whose hearts are inscribed with their passion; paintings depict hearts as books; and medieval scribes even produced manuscript codices shaped like hearts.
In a far-reaching conclusion, Jager considers what the much-prophesied "death of the book" might portend for twenty-first-century conceptions of the post-textual self.
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