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    The Art of Poetry and the Art of Memory: Philip Sidney’s Mnemonic Poetics

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    This article explores the significance of the art of memory as a mnemonic poetics in Philip Sidney’s literary theory and practice. The art of memory is more than an ancient mnemonic method, I argue; rather, it constitutes a poetics that evolves from Plato to Petrarch as part of an interdisciplinary dialogue and debate about how the past is remembered (particularly through love stories) and remade in the present. This tradition of mnemonic poetics is central to Sidney’s portrayal of the art of poetry as an art of memory in his Apology for Poetry, a tradition that Sidney remembers anew in his sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella. Sidney constructs his poem as a memory theatre in which he demonstrates and indeed dramatizes the art of memory indirectly and ironically: through a poetic persona, Astrophil, who longs for an “art of forgetting” in his pursuit of originality.Cet article s’intĂ©resse Ă  l’art de la mĂ©moire comme une poĂ©tique mnĂ©monique dans la thĂ©orie et la pratique littĂ©raires de Philip Sidney. Nous avançons que, plus qu’une mĂ©thode mnĂ©monique ancienne, l’art de la mĂ©moire constitue une poĂ©tique qui Ă©volue de Platon Ă  PĂ©trarque au sein d’un dialogue et d’un dĂ©bat interdisciplinaires sur la maniĂšre dont le passĂ© est remĂ©morĂ© (notamment Ă  travers les histoires d’amour) et rĂ©activĂ© dans le prĂ©sent. Cette tradition d’une poĂ©tique mnĂ©monique est centrale dans la reprĂ©sentation de l’art poĂ©tique comme art de la mĂ©moire dans l’Apology for Poetry, tradition que Sidney fait renaĂźtre dans les sonnets d’Astrophil and Stella. Sidney construit son poĂšme comme un thĂ©Ăątre de la mĂ©moire dans lequel il reprĂ©sente et met en scĂšne l’art de la mĂ©moire de façon indirecte et ironique, soit Ă  travers une persona poĂ©tique, Astrophil, qui aspire Ă  un « art de l’oubli » dans sa quĂȘte d’originalitĂ©

    The Art of Poetry and the Art of Memory: Philip Sidney’s Mnemonic Poetics

    No full text
    This article explores the significance of the art of memory as a mnemonic poetics in Philip Sidney’s literary theory and practice. The art of memory is more than an ancient mnemonic method, I argue; rather, it constitutes a poetics that evolves from Plato to Petrarch as part of an interdisciplinary dialogue and debate about how the past is remembered (particularly through love stories) and remade in the present. This tradition of mnemonic poetics is central to Sidney’s portrayal of the art of poetry as an art of memory in his Apology for Poetry, a tradition that Sidney remembers anew in his sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella. Sidney constructs his poem as a memory theatre in which he demonstrates and indeed dramatizes the art of memory indirectly and ironically: through a poetic persona, Astrophil, who longs for an “art of forgetting” in his pursuit of originality.Cet article s’intĂ©resse Ă  l’art de la mĂ©moire comme une poĂ©tique mnĂ©monique dans la thĂ©orie et la pratique littĂ©raires de Philip Sidney. Nous avançons que, plus qu’une mĂ©thode mnĂ©monique ancienne, l’art de la mĂ©moire constitue une poĂ©tique qui Ă©volue de Platon Ă  PĂ©trarque au sein d’un dialogue et d’un dĂ©bat interdisciplinaires sur la maniĂšre dont le passĂ© est remĂ©morĂ© (notamment Ă  travers les histoires d’amour) et rĂ©activĂ© dans le prĂ©sent. Cette tradition d’une poĂ©tique mnĂ©monique est centrale dans la reprĂ©sentation de l’art poĂ©tique comme art de la mĂ©moire dans l’Apology for Poetry, tradition que Sidney fait renaĂźtre dans les sonnets d’Astrophil and Stella. Sidney construit son poĂšme comme un thĂ©Ăątre de la mĂ©moire dans lequel il reprĂ©sente et met en scĂšne l’art de la mĂ©moire de façon indirecte et ironique, soit Ă  travers une persona poĂ©tique, Astrophil, qui aspire Ă  un « art de l’oubli » dans sa quĂȘte d’originalitĂ©
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