Colors of the Mind

Conjectures on Thinking in Literature

Angus Fletcher

    Introduction

    Part I. Representing Thought

    1. Iconographies of Thought

    2. Two Frames in the Iconography of Thinking: The Satanic and the Quixotic

    3. The Distractions of Wit in the English Renaissance

    4. Standing, Waiting, and Traveling Light: Milton and the Drama of Information

    Part II. Representative Thinking

    5. Allegorical Secrecy, Gnomic Obscurity

    6. The Language-Game of Prophecy in Renaissance Poetics

    7. The Father of Lies

    8. Dipintura: The Visual Icon of Historicism in Vico

    9. Threshold, Sequence, and Personification in Coleridge

    10. Silence and the Voice of Thought

    11. Music and the Code of the Ineffable: Visconti's Death in Venice

    12. The Image of Lost Direction

    13. Style and the Extreme Situation

    14. Stevens and the Influential Gnome

    Notes

    Index

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Angus Fletcher is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate School.