1st Edition
Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present
By George P. Landow
Copyright 1982
252 Pages
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Routledge
266 Pages
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250 Pages
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First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology. George Landow shows how the tumultuous history of the past two hundred years has resulted in a plethora of metaphors associated with moments of human crisis. Avalanches and volcanoes emerge as focal... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Images, Situation, and Structures 2. Shipwrecks and Castaways 3. Related Paradigms 4. Iconology and technique; Notes; Index
Biography
Landow, George P.
