The Emblem Books and Geffrey Whitney's A Choice of Emblemes (1586)

本計畫之目的有二：第一部份討論圖詩集文類之特色，以圖詩集之父奧西阿帝 (Andrea Alciati) 之「圖詩書」( Embelmatum liber) 所樹立的典範，考察圖詩文類 三部結構：格言、圖像、及警句詩。第二部份仔細分析英國第一位圖詩集作家惠 特尼(Geffrey Whitney)「圖詩選」A Choice of Emblemes (1586) 之結構；並探討 「圖詩選」中之讚頌圖詩，考察他如何運用歐陸圖詩文類，書寫伊莉莎白一世時 期流行之讚頌詩，試圖破除惠特尼研究學者，認為其「圖詩選」僅是一些模仿或 翻譯之作的狹隘看法。Over the centuries the vast collection of emblem books has been an object of purely antiquarian curiosity. Recently growing interest in verbal-pictorial art forms of the Renaissance calls for an reexamination of the long-neglected genre -- the European emblem books in general and the English emblem books in particular. This project has been completed with two aims in mind. First, it tries to define briefly the generic features of the emblem books using Andrea Alciati's Embelmatum liber as a model for illustration. Secondly, it provides an in-depth analysis of the first English Emblem writer Geffrey Whitney's A Choice of Emblemes (1586) in terms of its structure and Whitney's appropriation of this European genre in writing his English political emblematic panegyrics