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Callis, Jonathan P.

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Reading the mind: Renaissance allegory and Lockean psychology in eighteenth-century English literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading the mind: Renaissance allegory and Lockean psychology in eighteenth-century English literature./
Author:	Callis, Jonathan P.
Description:	298 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3739407
ISBN:	9781339300351

Reading the mind: Renaissance allegory and Lockean psychology in eighteenth-century English literature.
Callis, Jonathan P.

Reading the mind: Renaissance allegory and Lockean psychology in eighteenth-century English literature. - 298 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2016.

The mind is an allegorical place. As it receives countless sense impressions from the body's nerves and the external world, the mind turns its impressions into ideas and then attempts to organize this perpetual stream of thoughts. This, at least, is the basic philosophical account of mind and body which runs through Descartes's groundbreaking work in Optics and Locke's theory of psychology from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Descartes and Locke agree that the mind's perception of external reality cannot always be trusted. Locke's famous chapter on the association of ideas, a late addition to the Essay's initially optimistic account of perception and cognition, anxiously shows how the mind joins together and confuses all sorts of images and ideas which should be kept distinct. Locke's ambivalent account of cognition---that the mind should give us a clear and distinct picture of reality even while it deceives us---held a firm grip on the eighteenth-century imagination. Locke's theory of association demonstrates the need for allegory. Allegory asks its readers to find an organizing principle of coherence within a host of images and figures. Yet Locke and his eighteenth-century disciples condemned allegory because its ever-changing metaphorical imagery can work against the mind's production of clear and distinct ideas.

ISBN: 9781339300351Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Reading the mind: Renaissance allegory and Lockean psychology in eighteenth-century English literature.
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