Word and Image in the Early Modern West: Representations of Barbarity through Illustration, Ekphrasis and Allegory

Abstract

This article aims to study the role of transpositions as devices that produced identity and alterity in the Early Modern Western World. The starting point will be the analysis of concrete uses of illustrations, ekfrasein, and allegories. The paper attempts to understand the ways in which transpositions were used to produce representations of several Others that, in turn, contributed to produce different identities in the European context.