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Allegoresis : Reading Canonical Literature East and West.
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 ...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; ALLEGORESIS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Validity of Cross-Cultural Understanding; Of Fish and Knowledge: The Translatability of Terms; Relativism, Universalism, and the Rites Controversy; Nature, Writing, and Chinese Poetry; History and Fictionality; 2 Canon and Allegoresis; Reading the Song of Songs; From Jewish Midrash to Christian Allegorization; Philo, Origen, and the Anxiety of Interpretation; Reading the Book of Poetry; The Use versus the Reading of Poetry; Allegory and Historical Contextualization; 3 Interpretation and Ideology.
- The Complexity of the LiteralThe Commentary Tradition and Its Discontents; Poetry and Political Interpretation; 4 The Utopian Vision, East and West; Utopia and Secularism; Utopian Tendencies in Confucianism; Literary Variations; Great Unity as a Social Vision; Kang Youwei and Utopianism in Modern China; Corruptio optimi; 5 Conclusion: Reading and Politics; Reading for Political Subversiveness; Political Reading and Its Consequences; Bibliography; Index.