Occidental Ideographs: Image, Sequence, and Literary HistoryBucknell University Press, 1991 - 288 pages This work proposes a new approach to literary history that locates the historicity of a literary work of art in the visual image that initiates the work and is fundamental to it, a visual metaphor of which the text is the verbalization. |
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