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Speaking Pictures: Emblems, Metaphor and Language in Early Modern Writing

Graduate

Winter 2022

Topics

  • Early modern emblems
  • Metaphor
  • Poetry
  • Visual and verbal representation

Readings

  • Aston, Margaret. England’s Iconoclasts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
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  • Bath, Michael. Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture. London: Longman, 1994.
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  • Colie, Rosalie L. Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1966.
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  • Collins, Christopher. Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
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  • Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
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  • Donoghue, Denis. Metaphor. Harvard University Press, 2014.
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  • Donawerth, Jane. Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
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  • Engel, William E. Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
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  • Evett, David. Literature and the Visual Arts in Tudor England. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
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  • Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr., ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge: University Press, 2008.
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  • Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr. Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life. Cambridge: University Press, 2017.
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  • Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr., ed. Mixing Metaphor. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016.
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  • Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr. The Poetics of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
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  • Gilman, Ernest B. Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. This has some valuable work on emblems.
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  • Grogan, Jane. Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
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  • Hampe, Beate, ed. Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse. Cambridge: University Press, 2017.
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  • Hausman, Carl R. Metaphor and Art: Interactionism and Reference in the Verbal and Nonverbal Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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  • Hawkes, Terence. Metaphor. London: Taylor and Francis, 2017.
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  • Hedley, Jane. Power in Verse: Metaphor and Metonymy in the Renaissance Lyric. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1988.
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  • Heninger, S. K. Jr. The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe. Pasedena: Castle Press, 1977.
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  • Heywood, Ian and Barry Sandywell, eds. Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Visual. London: Routledge, 1999.
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  • Hillman, David and Carla Mazzio, eds. The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern England. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.
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  • Hulse, Clark. The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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  • Hunter, Michael, ed. Printed Images in Early Modern Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
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  • Krieger, Murray. Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992.
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  • Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
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  • Lakoff, George & Mark Turner. More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
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  • Lanham, Richard A. The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
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  • Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1979.
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  • Manning, John. The Emblem. London: Reaktion Books, 2002.
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  • Punter, David. Metaphor. London: Routledge, 2007.
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  • Ricoeur, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language. Trans. Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin & John Costello. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.
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  • Ritchie, L. David. Metaphor. Cambridge: University Press, 2012.
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  • Semino, Elena and Zsofia Demjen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. London: Routledge, 2017. 8
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  • Sharpe, J. A. Early Modern England: A Social History 1550-1760. Second edition. London: Arnold, 1997.
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  • Shuger, Debora. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture. The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
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  • Singer, Thomas C. “Hieroglyphs, Real Characters, and the Idea of Natural Language in English Seventeenth-Century Thought.” Journal of the History of Ideas, 50 (1989): 49-70.
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  • Skulsky, Harold. Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor. Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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  • Stern, Josef. Metaphor in Context. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.
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  • Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1989.
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  • Thorne, Alison. Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking Through Language. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
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  • Wood, Rufus. Metaphor and Belief in The Faerie Queene. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
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