ENGLISH 737
Speaking Pictures: Emblems, Metaphor and Language in Early Modern Writing
Winter 2022
Topics
- Early modern emblems
- Metaphor
- Poetry
- Visual and verbal representation
Readings
- Aston, Margaret. England’s Iconoclasts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
- Bath, Michael. Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture. London: Longman, 1994.
- Colie, Rosalie L. Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1966.
- Collins, Christopher. Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
- Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
- Donoghue, Denis. Metaphor. Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Donawerth, Jane. Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
- Engel, William E. Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
- Evett, David. Literature and the Visual Arts in Tudor England. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
- Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr., ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge: University Press, 2008.
- Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr. Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life. Cambridge: University Press, 2017.
- Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr., ed. Mixing Metaphor. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016.
- Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr. The Poetics of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
- 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.
- Grogan, Jane. Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
- Hampe, Beate, ed. Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse. Cambridge: University Press, 2017.
- Hausman, Carl R. Metaphor and Art: Interactionism and Reference in the Verbal and Nonverbal Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Hawkes, Terence. Metaphor. London: Taylor and Francis, 2017.
- Hedley, Jane. Power in Verse: Metaphor and Metonymy in the Renaissance Lyric. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1988.
- Heninger, S. K. Jr. The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe. Pasedena: Castle Press, 1977.
- Heywood, Ian and Barry Sandywell, eds. Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Visual. London: Routledge, 1999.
- Hillman, David and Carla Mazzio, eds. The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern England. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.
- Hulse, Clark. The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Hunter, Michael, ed. Printed Images in Early Modern Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
- Krieger, Murray. Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992.
- Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
- Lakoff, George & Mark Turner. More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Lanham, Richard A. The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
- Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1979.
- Manning, John. The Emblem. London: Reaktion Books, 2002.
- Punter, David. Metaphor. London: Routledge, 2007.
- 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.
- Ritchie, L. David. Metaphor. Cambridge: University Press, 2012.
- Semino, Elena and Zsofia Demjen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. London: Routledge, 2017. 8
- Sharpe, J. A. Early Modern England: A Social History 1550-1760. Second edition. London: Arnold, 1997.
- 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.
- 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.
- Skulsky, Harold. Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor. Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
- Stern, Josef. Metaphor in Context. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.
- Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1989.
- Thorne, Alison. Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking Through Language. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
- Wood, Rufus. Metaphor and Belief in The Faerie Queene. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027