Search Results for metaphors for reading and writing

...Marion Turner Medical language permeated all kinds of texts in premodern Europe, including legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings. The essays in this special issue are particularly interested in the functions of metaphor and of narrative. Many thinkers...

...A. W. Strouse Christian writers have often conceptualized reading and writing in terms of uncircumcision. This study begins to uncover that long-standing literary-theoretical tradition. It describes how early Christian theologians, following Saint Paul, discussed allegory with metaphors...

... in print. Specifically, Whitney restructures humanist notions of reading-as-gathering around “huswifely” textile work by drawing on the rich semantic context of the word slip . Situating Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay in the material culture from which she drew her metaphors illuminates its relationship...

...” texts were not read only by doctors and medicine was not practiced only by doc- tors. The Englishing of medicine from the late fourteenth century encour- aged more people to read such texts (just as they were also, increasingly, consuming other forms of “practical” writing).22 Preachers, who...

... Studies / 45.2 / 2015 to a piece of wax made pliable by the heat of chafing hands. This compari- son evokes the wax tablets that were a primary technology of writing in the ancient world, while also conjuring an important topos in classical philoso- phy: the metaphor of an image impressed in wax...

... The specifically utopian dimension of metaphor, and thus of metaphorical “bee-writing” or apiography, lies in the no-place of metaphorical vehicles. The metaphoric extension of the beehive is not merely idealizing but neces- sarily utopian, whether constructed before or after More’s genre-founding work...

... liken itself to the innovation of the crystal glass mirror obscures these intersections of past and present, reading and writing, of creation and consumption, and offers only topical conceits that are tied to neither a fixed place nor a tem- poral value. Rather than an object wrought by a known...

...” is read as “God’s mark,” it may also be reclaimed as “my mark”— a self-willed inscription, even a deŽ- ant self-writing, that nonetheless necessarily retains an ambivalent connec- tion to submission, transgression, and shame. “Thus, markings, even the most horrendous, may be reversed...

...- after, between metaphorical trees and their real counterparts, and between individual bodies and the communities that hold them. a Notes I am truly grateful to Barbara Newman for her willingness to read (and reread) this essay, and for her incisive comments and suggestions. My...

... as being, in themselves, acts of reading and writing, and we are particu- larly interested in essays that can combine the archival recovery of previously neglected forms of textual production with a broader consideration of how this new material enables us to revise established narratives about...

... and works, respectively). This metaphor is as ubiquitous as the rural labor of plowing and digging described in medieval theological writings, appearing in Martin Luther’s Lectures on Galatians and in English writers, such as Tyndale and John Frith.28 Tyndale writes thus: Take forth also...

... reexamines Book to a Mother 's adaptation of allegories of the cloister and its transformation of clerical practices of reading alongside lollard polemical writings that also sidestep priestly authority and institutional religion in Christian life. Although Book 's use of polemical discourse has been...

....” Beyond this, cutting and pasting can be understood as being, in themselves, acts of reading and writing, and we are particu- 238  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.1 / 2014 larly interested in essays that can combine the archival recovery of previously neglected forms of textual...

... available in physically and spiritually concrete ways to those who read or hear the text. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 medieval spirituality and meditation medical language and metaphor physiology of the heart Henry Duke of Lancaster Livre de Seyntz Medicines...

... of this bodily trope, the mortification of the flesh that Edgar performs in becoming Poor Tom can be read as a macabre literalization of the period's standard metaphor for understanding vicious poverty. But Edgar's conversion into Poor Tom also inverts the representations described above: unlike those texts...

... and Monuments, as a religion of the book, but also of active, engaged readers. Foxe’s Lollards read, debate, and discuss godly writing, principally the Bible but also other religious works. For Foxe, godly debate was at the heart of what it meant to be a Lollard and a good Protestant...

... between judicial and penal procedures and the medicalized body. Across Caulier's successive interventions in the querelle , medical language at first complements then ultimately supplants juridical discourse. Unlike the “punitive” metaphors identified by Susan Sontag, medicalized language empowers...

... in the writing of Renaissance queens but an emblem of its fundamental condition.”7 There is more to the case of Mary’s imprisonment, however, than a metaphor of submission — a metaphor applicable, to a certain degree, to the conditions of writing of all early modern women. The rhetorical significance...

... writes that its author “hath in his book twilted and stitched in a whole pennyworth of paper” containing a veiled attack on Andrew Perne, “The Encomium of the Fox.”21 Nashe’s referencing of a “stitched” book, like the “patched” plays of early dramatists, is a metaphor of material text...

... for differing goals.31 Writing about the Middle English hymns, Helmut Gneuss and Domenico Pezzini indicate that translations were produced for one of three possible purposes. Translated hymns were quoted in vernacular sermons, read as private devotions, or sung in “extra-­liturgical services...