Convergence of iconic-conventional signification in the emblematic patterns of literature

Abstract

Convergence of iconic-conventional signification in the emblematic patterns of literature has been examined in the paper. The author emphasizes that the notions of ‘emblem’ and ‘emblematicity’ have been given an extensive treatment in the current studies. They are endowed with the functions of ‘cultural universals’ that regulate the mechanisms responsible for meaning making and preservation of senses in culture. Thus, the emblematic form is regarded as a phenomenon that generates and accumulates historical and artistic experience within a specific semiotic structure. Schematically, it is reduced to the interaction of iconic (visual) and conventional (verbal) signs of meaning expression; hermeneutically as the relation between the text and the expounder, a peculiar version of ‘translation based on decoding, interpretation.