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Thinking allegory otherwise /

A unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways. The essays are not limited to an examination of literary texts and works of art, and in fact focus on a wide range of topics that includes architecture, philosophy, theatre, science, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Machosky, Brenda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Allegory without ideas / Angus J.S. Fletcher
  • Memories and allegories of the death penalty : back to the medieval future? / Jody Enders
  • The mask of Copernicus and the mark of the compass : Bruno, Galileo, and the ontology of the page / Daniel Selcer
  • The function of allegory in baroque tragic drama : what Benjamin got wrong / Blair Hoxby
  • Colonial allegories in Paris / Gordon Teskey
  • Monuments and space as allegory : town planning proposals in eighteenth-century Paris / Richard Wittman
  • Allegory and female agency / Maureen Quilligan
  • What knights really want / Stephen Orgel
  • Eliding absence and regaining presence : the materialist allegory of good and evil in Bacon's fables and Milton's epic / Catherine Gimelli Martin
  • On vitality, figurality and orality in Hannah Arendt / Karen Feldman
  • Allegory and science : from Euclid to the search for fundamental structures in modern physics / James J. Paxson.