Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Representing Thought
6. 1. Iconographies of Thought 15
7. 2. Two Frames in the Iconography of Thinking: The Satanic and the Quixotic 35
8. 3. The Distractions of Wit in the English Renaissance 52
9. 4. Standing, Waiting, and Traveling Light: Milton and the Drama of Information 68
10. Part II. Representative Thinking
11. 5. Allegorical Secrecy, Gnomic Obscurity 93
12. 6. The Language-Game of Prophecy in Renaissance Poetics 115
13. 7. The Father of Lies 128
14. 8. Dipintura: The Visual Icon of Historicism in Vico 147
15. 9. Threshold, Sequence, and Personification in Coleridge 166
16. 10. Silence and the Voice of Thought 189
17. 11. Music and the Code of the Ineffable: Visconti's Death in Venice 212
18. 12. The Image of Lost Direction 230
19. 13. Style and the Extreme Situation 244
20. 14. Stevens and the Influential Gnome 266
21. Notes 289
22. Index 305