Speaking pictures : English emblem books and Renaissance culture
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Speaking pictures : English emblem books and Renaissance culture
（Longman medieval and Renaissance library）
Longman, 1994
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [286]-305
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780582061965
Description
This book seeks to define the emblem's importance in the literary systems of English Renaissance culture. It examines the relationship between emblems and formal rhetoric and explores the place which the emblem occupied in the theoretical treatises on symbols of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Table of Contents
- Theories and contexts
- mundus significans - the world of symbols
- normative models - 16th-century emblem books
- Henry Peacham's courtly devices
- a plaine invention - George Wither
- the philosophy of symbols
- exegesis and meditation - the spiritual emblem in England
- divine opticks - Frances Quarles
- symbolic theology - Henry Hawkins S.J.
- appendix - chronological list of English emblem books to 1700, excluding manuscripts.
- Volume
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: hard ISBN 9780582061972
Description
This study aims to provide an introduction to the major emblem books of the 16th and 17th centuries, and to the contexts in which they flourished. Five chapters are devoted to critical readings of particular emblem books, while the remaining four are mainly contextual. The author has tried to concentrate on texts to which readers and students have some access, and has included the most readily available reprints of primary sources in his bibliography. Emblem books consist of a story or situation written in such a wasy as to have two coherent meanings. Michael Bath offers a descriptive and analytical account of all the major emblem writers of the period, in particular, he re-evaluates the work of Francis Quarles and Henry Hawkins' Partheneia Sacra. A final chapter takes the history of the English Emblem tradition down to 1900.
Table of Contents
- Theories and contexts
- mundus significans - the world of symbols
- normative models - 16th-century emblem books
- Henry Peacham's courtly devices
- a plaine invention - George Wither
- the philosophy of symbols
- exegesis and meditation - the spiritual emblem in England
- divine opticks - Frances Quarles
- symbolic theology - Henry Hawkins S.J.
- appendix - chronological list of English emblem books to 1700, excluding manuscripts.
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