Emblematics in Hungary : : A Study of the History of Symbolic Representation in Renaissance and Baroque Literature / / Éva Knapp, Gábor Tüskés.

The main aim of the work is to present emblematics in Hungary in its European context, and to show the reciprocal influence between that phenomenon and mainstream literature. The description of the theoretical and historical development in Hungary is supplemented by a series of case studies examinin...

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Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2012]
©2003
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Frühe Neuzeit : Studien und Dokumente zur deutschen Literatur und Kultur im europäischen Kontext , 86
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • I Background, definitions, and objectives
  • II Emblematics in Hungarian literary theory
  • III Routes of transmission: Jesuit education and emblematics
  • IV The typology of emblem books and emblematic prints
  • V The English reception of a late humanist emblem book by a Hungarian author: Zsámboky (Sambucus) and Whitney
  • VI Mannerist emblematic poetry? The layers of literary tradition in János Rimay’s poem Fortuna/Occasio
  • VII Emblematic modes of expression in the school drama
  • VIII The emblematic mode and the sermon
  • IX Religious prose: Emblematic biographies of Jesuit saints
  • X Literary emblematics and the fine arts: Rhetorical conception and iconographie programme of the fresco cycle on the Grand Staircase of the Jesuit College at Győr
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • List of emblem books and emblematic prints with Hungarian connections
  • Tables
  • List of figures
  • Figures
  • Bibliography
  • Index