Modern Language Association of America.
Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 27-30 December 2009.
In Early Modern Europe, the printing press, the revered “ut pictura poiesis,” the Paragone, the vogue of emblems, and Neoplatonic thought – among other things – appear to have fostered a dominance of the eye, if not the supremacy of sight as the superior sense. Yet poetry remembers its formerly sung and mythically oracular nature, and struggles with its affinities with oratory. What role, then, (...)