Plotting Gothic

by Murray, Stephen

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Conclusion: Signs, Miracles, and Illusionism3. Suger, Abbot of S-Denis, and the Rhetoric of Persuasion: Manipulating Reality and Producing Meaning; Rhetorical Structure of De consecratione: Manipulated Dialectic; Production of the Text: From Oral to Written; Making Connections; Production of the New Church, Production of Salvation; Apocryphal Stories; Conclusion: The Abbot Who Spoke the Building; Part II. Staking Out the Plot; 4. Interlocutor and Monument; 5. Material Contexts: The Means of Production; How on Earth Did They Do That?; Economic Means; Reading the Signs: Construction History.

6. The Production of MeaningSimilitude to Nature; Local Roots; Similitude to Other Buildings; Modernism and Reason; An Image of Heaven; Conclusion; Part III. Animating the Plot; 7. Picturing the Three Agents of Construction; 8. The Cathedral as Object of Desire; Triangulating Desire; The Gap between Vision and Realization; Compression and Expansion: Plotting; My Desire; 9. Conclusion: Gothic Plots-Synchronic, Diachronic, and Spatial; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a series of three interlocking plots: a spatial plot tied to the material construction of the churches, a social plot stemming from the collaborative efforts that made Gothic output possible, and a rhetorical plot involving narratives that treat the churches as objects of desire. Drawing on the testimony.