The Ends of Allegory
Title | The Ends of Allegory PDF eBook |
Author | Sayre N. Greenfield |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780874136708 |
This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Examples from centuries of response to English Renaissance narrative poetry show not what poems mean but how they may be read and what cultural conditions encourage allegorical or nonallegorical readings. The study also encompasses interpretations of classical verse, biblical parable, Jacobean masque, modern lyric, and television advertising to explore how texts move in and out of the category of allegory.
Allegoresis
Title | Allegoresis PDF eBook |
Author | Longxi Zhang |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501711296 |
Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical text, is often said to contain a meaning different from what it literally says? How did allegorical readings arise and develop? By looking at such examples as Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Song of Songs and traditional Chinese commentaries on the Confucian classic Book of Poetry, Zhang Longxi discusses allegorical readings from a broad perspective that bridges the usual East/West cultural divide and examines their social and political implications. His approach is wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and cross-disciplinary, exploring allegoresis with regard to religion, philosophy, and literature. In his inquiry into allegory and allegorical interpretation, Zhang examines the idea of a self-explanatory text of the Bible as conceived by Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther; discusses the importance of the literal basis of textual interpretation; and takes up the question of moral responsibility and political allegiance. Zhang, who regards utopia as an allegory of social and political ideas, explores how utopian visions vary in their Chinese and Western expressions, in the process commenting on contemporary literary theory and political readings of literature past and present.
Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions
Title | Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Dinah Wouters |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2022-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3031171926 |
This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It argues that the form of the allegorical vision is not just the product of a medieval symbolic mentality, but specific to Hildegard’s position and the major transformations taking place in the prescholastic intellectual milieu, such as the changing use of Scripture or the shift from traditional hermeneutics to cognitive language philosophy. The book shows that Hildegard uses traditional forms of knowledge – prophecy, the vision, monastic theology, allegorical hermeneutics – in startlingly innovative ways by combining them and by revising them for her own time.
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
Title | Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2016-09-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1316679411 |
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. This volume shows how much is learned when historians of scholarship, like contemporary historians of science, focus on earlier scholars' practices, and when Western scholarly traditions are treated as part of a much larger, cross-cultural inquiry.
Early Greek Ethics
Title | Early Greek Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | David Conan Wolfsdorf |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 828 |
Release | 2020-05-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198758677 |
Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
The Best of the Grammarians
Title | The Best of the Grammarians PDF eBook |
Author | Francesca Schironi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 937 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0472130765 |
A landmark study of the emergence of Alexandrian and classical philology
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
Title | European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst Robert Curtius |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 740 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780691018997 |
In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto unpublished material, Peter Godman analyzes the intellectual and political context and character of Curtius's ideas.