Iconicity, History, and the Cultural Imageries of Body and Soul
Synopsis
"While some of our publications are now issued under the auspices of Brepols Publishers, we are especially pleased to present this volume through the newly founded Szeged University Press. Iconicity, History, and the Cultural Imageries of Body and Soul comprises a wide array of topics; yet, all contributions share a commitment to investigating the practices of cultural symbolization. The volume includes revised and expanded versions of selected papers from the 2013 conference, alongside newly commissioned essays. It is organized into three thematic sections: “From Theory to Practice,” “The Iconology of Body and Soul,” and “Reimagining the Corporeal and the Spiritual.”
The twenty-one contributing authors represent a diverse international community of scholars from the United States (including W.J.T. Mitchell, a keynote speaker at the penultimate conference), Canada (notably David Graham, a constant participant since 1993 who has missed only one conference), as well as Bosnia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain.
We hope this rich and varied collection—also available in open access digital format—will serve as a valuable resource and source of inspiration for scholars and students worldwide, whether they are practitioners of classical iconological methods or pioneers seeking to rethink and revitalize the field’s enduring legacy."
(quoted from the Preface)
Chapters
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Iconicity, History, and the Cultural Imageries of Body and SoulPREFACE
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Image x Text
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Meta-Representations, Self-Referentiality, Impossible Pictures
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Assembling, Being, EmbodyingEarly Modern Emblem and Device as Body, Soul, and Metaphor
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PathopoeiaToward a Poetics of the Soul from Tudor Rhetorical Treatises to Shakespearean Texts
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Of Shimmering FlameZones of Enchantment and the Arabian Nights
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On the Semiotics of the Rebus
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What Can You Learn in Fez?Oriental Wisdom in Western Fiction Based on the Rosicrucian Mythology
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Tormented Bodies in Late Medieval Paintings
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The Body as Image of the Suffering ChristPreliminaries
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Dread of Disease and DisfigurementSmallpox at the Court of Elizabeth I
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Testing the Borderline Between Body and SoulMacbeth, Anatomy Theatres, and the Semiotics of the Early Modern Skin
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Conflicting Interpretations in Caravaggio’s EntombmentIconographic Tradition and Artistic Innovation
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Gestures and Inner Feelings in the Graphic Representations of the Last Supper in Old Romanian Writings (1700–1829)
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The Corporeal Reality of Post-feudal ClientelismThe (Body)Language of Fidelity. A case study
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Personhood and Authorship. The Dead Body as Lieu de MémoireA Theoretical Experiment A’Propos Bentham’s Auto-icon
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The Morphology of Eyebrows in Works by Giovan Battista della Porta and Cesare Lombroso
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A Semiotic Approach to the Parthenon as a Pillar of Modern Democracy
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“Mystic, Awful Was the Process”Changing Meanings of Victorian Child Photography in Lewis Carroll’s Darkroom and Bright Text
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Bodies in DisguiseGraphic and Verbal Embodiments in Djuna Barnes
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Foreign Bodies, Foreign SoulsNational Physiognomy in Modern Romanian Art
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Producing the ReverendPerforming the Political and the Spiritual on the Global Stage
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Illustrations
