Emblematics and metaphor: theoretical facets and hermeneutic issues

The article focuses on Renaissance emblematics and its privileged relationship with metaphor, considered in the light of contemporary theories as an inherently tensional form, steeped interchange transition heavily relying a basically conflictual dynamic. Though often dismissed academic, antiquarian form figurality or pleasing symbolical monologic stability, was fact conceived brand-new hybrid textual mode whose complex interplay signs favored multiplied discursive models constant relay between visual elements, abstract conceptualization thoughts-made-visible. paper, other words, will try to reassess re-evaluate profoundly plural communication connections metaphor were much deeper qualitatively different than it is usually thought. This slant approach what conventionally tame example early modern textuality highlights, contrary, idiosyncratic meaning procedures: metaphorical conceptualizations emblematic compositions not necessarily based similarity testify their cognitive potential which ushered idea projective dislocating, dialogic space allowing for paradoxical copresence ideological consistency deconstruction.