The Book of the Heart

By: Eric Jager

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Hardcover | 1 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metaphor when we speak of someone "reading" another's mind or a desire to "turn over a new leaf"--these phrases refer to the "book of the self," an idea that dates from the beginnings of Western culture.
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.
""The Book of the Heart" provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas."--Henry Petroski, author of "The Book on the Bookshelf"

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List of Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note on Translations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Origins	p. 1
Augustine	p. 27
The Scriptorium of the Heart	p. 44
Lovers	p. 65
Saints	p. 87
Everyman	p. 103
Picturing the Metaphor	p. 120
After Gutenberg	p. 137
Codex or Computer?	p. 157
List of Abbreviations	p. 175
Notes	p. 177
Works Cited	p. 209
Index	p. 235
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