2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Thought-enforced Conventions in Otto van Veen's Amorum Emblemata : Reading and Humanist Rhetoric Tradition in the Seventeenth Century.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520283
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	European literature (English literature excluded)
Research Institution	Nagoya University
Principal Investigator	SUZUKI Shigeo 名古屋大学, 国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (50162946)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	エンブレム / オットー・ファン・フェーン / 読者反応論 / 17世紀 / 著者論・恋愛・結婚愛
Research Abstract	Otto van Veen's Amorum Emblemata has references to classical literature, many of which are unidentified yet today. The book was published in a polyglot format by means of which Veen is thought to sell his book well. My research discloses most of those unknown resources and set the stage for a dramatic change in Veen's website run by University of Utrecht. As for the polyglot format, the research reveals that it is one of the three contrivances Veen embedded in his book so that his readers must not assume that the text should be already possessed of its definitive message, but they must be responsible for deliberately and even enthusiastically participating in the process of making meaning.