Literature in the Light of the Emblem: Structural Parallels Between the Emblem and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

by Peter M. Daly

The literature of the 16th and 17th centuries was informed the symbolic thought and expression embodied in the mixed art form of emblems. This study explores the relationship between the emblem proper and the literature of England and Germany during the period.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802053904
• ISBN13: 9780802053909
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 245 Pages