Literature in the Light of the Emblem.Daly, Peter M. Literature in the Light of the Emblem. 1979. 2nd ed. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, Press, 1998. xv + 283 pp. illus, bibl, index. n.p. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-8020-7891-5. This study of the emblem as both source and structural principle for early modern poetry was first published in 1979. In this second edition, Daly has substantially rewritten Chapter 1 and expanded his bibliography in order to reflect the "phenomenal growth in the study of emblems" in the past twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. . Otherwise, the structure and content of the book remain unchanged. Daly begins with a definition and description of emblem books and in following chapters surveys a range of word-emblems as well as examples of emblematic em·blem·at·ic or em·blem·at·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or serving as an emblem; symbolic. [French emblématique, from Medieval Latin embl poetry, drama, and narrative prose. The book has been indexed by proper names and emblem motifs. |
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