This volume is the offspring of many years of research in symbolic representations carried out at the English and Comparative Literature departments of "Jozsef Attila" University, Szeged. In 1990 the dramatic changes in East-Central Europe inspired the organization of an international conference where scholars of the (politically defined) East and West could exchange ideas in the fields of iconography, emblem studies and cultural symbolisation. In June, 1993, at the conference in Szeged, fifty-seven papers were read by scholars representing Canada, the Czech Republic, England, Germany,...