In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought from "framing" to "perspective" to "reflection" Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Kalas explores the visual culture of the English Renaissance by way of the poetic image, showing that English writers avoided charges of idolatry and fancy through conceits that were visual, but not pictorial. Frames, mirrors, and windows have been pervasive and enduring metaphors for texts from classical antiquity to modernity; as a...
In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought from "framing" to "perspective" to "reflection" Rayna K...
