Staf Irina Karlovla – Candidate in Philology, Senior Researcher at the Department of Western Classical Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
A.E. Makhov’s latest book form a dilogy with the volume “Emblematic: Macrocosm”, published in 2014. Together they can be considered a study that is almost unique in science in terms of material coverage and logical structure. By singling out the analogy of the emblem and the human being as a separate problem, the scientist achieves two goals. Firstly, this analogy allows to study the presence of man in the emblem not only as an object of description, but also as the addressee of the book and its author. Secondly, it gives the study a necessary historical dimension, raising the question of the role of the principle of anthropomorphism in Renaissance and Baroque culture.
Renaissance; baroque; book emblem; visual and verbal; didacticism; ethos; rhetoric; corporeality.