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Strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist FT Marinetti, and as thematically diverse as the Pilgrim's Progress.

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Author:   C. Jac Conradie (University of Johannesburg) ,  Ronél Johl (University of Johannesburg) ,  Marthinus Beukes (University of Johannesburg) ,  Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   9
Weight:   0.920kg
ISBN:  

9789027243454

ISBN 10:   902724345
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   26 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction: Signergy (by Johl, Ronel); 4. Part I. Theoretical approaches; 5. Literary practices and imaginative possibilities: Toward a pragmatic understanding of iconicity (by Colapietro, Vincent); 6. The bell jar, the maze and the mural: Diagrammatic figurations as textual performance (by Ljungberg, Christina); 7. Iconicity as meaning miming meaning and meaning miming form (by Ellestrom, Lars); 8. A view from the margins: Theoretical contributions to an understanding of iconicity from the Afrikaans-speaking research community (by Johl, Ronel); 9. Part II. Visual iconicity; 10. Iconic and indexical elements in Italian Futurist poetry: F. T. Marinetti's words-in-freedom (by White, John J.); 11. Taking a line for a walk: Poetic contour drawings and contoured poems (by Plooy, Heilna du); 12. Iconicity and naming in E. E. Cummings's poetry (by Terblanche, Etienne); 13. Bunyan and the physiognomy of the Wor(l)d (by Bauer, Matthias); 14. From icon to index and back: A 16th century description of a sea-bishop (by Conradie, C. Jac); 15. The poem as icon of the painting: Poetic iconicity in Johannes Vermeer and Tom Gouws (by Beukes, Marthinus); 16. Part III. Iconicity and historical change; 17. Iconicity and etymology (by Liberman, Anatoly); 18. Iconicity typological and theological: J. G. Hamann and James Joyce (by Purdy, Strother B.); 19. An iconic, analogical approach to grammaticalization (by Fischer, Olga); 20. Part IV. Iconicity and positionality; 21. Iconic signs, motivated semantic networks, and the nature of conceptualization: What iconic signing spaces can tell us about mental spaces (by Herlofsky, William J.); 22. Iconicity and subjectivisation in the English NP: The case of little (by Gonzalez-Diaz, Victorina); 23. Metrical inversion and enjambment in the context of syntactic and morphological structures: Towards a poetics of verse (by Muller, Wolfgang G.); 24. Part V. Iconicity and translation; 25. Translation, iconicity, and dialogism (by Petrilli, Susan); 26. Iconicity and developments in translation studies (by Naude, Jacobus A.); 27. Author index; 28. Subject index

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