Emblematics in Hungary: A Study of the History of Symbolic Representation in Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Éva Knapp; Gábor Tüskés

Published by Max Niemeyer Verlag 2003

Emblematics in Hungary

A Study of the History of Symbolic Representation in Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Éva Knapp and Gábor Tüskés

Volume 86 in the series Frühe Neuzeit

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950823

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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 examining the effect of emblematics upon various literary genres. The final chapter analyzes the link between literary emblematics and the visual arts by looking at a specific example. As in most European countries, emblematics in Hungary is part of a complex labyrinth of literary modes of thought and expression. A relative poverty of theoretical writing went hand in hand with a considerable range of emblematic practice. The emblem proved to be a transitional form between the period when signs and motifs were regarded as having specific and fixed meanings and the modern period when we have developed a different and shifting concept of language and meaning. At the same time as emblems began to penetrate the more popular levels of national culture and literature, they also became more specialized. Hungarian emblematics used, for the most part, existing pictorial and textual combinations of pictures and texts. They employed the emblem notably in genres and texts of the genus demonstrativum, which referred to matters which were topical at the time.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
I Background, definitions, and objectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II Emblematics in Hungarian literary theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
III Routes of transmission: Jesuit education and emblematics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
IV The typology of emblem books and emblematic prints Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
V The English reception of a late humanist emblem book by a Hungarian author: Zsámboky (Sambucus) and Whitney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
VI Mannerist emblematic poetry? The layers of literary tradition in János Rimay’s poem Fortuna/Occasio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
VII Emblematic modes of expression in the school drama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
VIII The emblematic mode and the sermon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
IX Religious prose: Emblematic biographies of Jesuit saints Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
List of emblem books and emblematic prints with Hungarian connections Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
List of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Edition: Reprint 2012
Pages
- Main content: 322
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 80
- Tables: 11
Keywords: Ungarn; Jesuitendrama; Emblemliteratur; Neulatein; Geschichte 1570-1770

eBook

Published: October 25, 2012
ISBN: 9783110950823

Hardcover

Published: September 19, 2003
ISBN: 9783484365865