The Cambridge Companion to Allegory

Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.

ISBN 0521680824   Pages 324 ISBN13 9780521680820 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 530 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series title Cambridge Companions to Literature Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 25 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 809.915   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education

		List of illustrations
		Chronology
		Introduction by Rita Copeland and Peter T. Struck
Pt. I		Ancient Foundations
1		Early Greek allegory by Dirk Obbink
2		Hellenistic allegory and early imperial rhetoric by Glenn W. Most
3		Origen as theorist of allegory: Alexandrian contexts by Daniel Boyarin
Pt. II		Philosophy, Theology, and Poetry 200 to 1200
4		Allegory and ascent in Neoplaronism by Peter T. Struck
5		Allegory in Christian late antiquity by Denys Turner
6		Allegory in Islamic literatures by Peter Heath
7		Twelfth-century allegory: philosophy and imagination by Jon Whitman
Pt. III		Literary Allegory: Philosophy and Figuration
8		Allegory in the Roman de la Rose by Kevin Brownlee
9		Dante and allegory by Albert R. Ascoli
10		Medieval secular allegory: French and English by Stephanie Gibbs Kamath and Rita Copeland
11		Medieval religious allegory: French and English by Nicolette Zeeman
12		Renaissance allegory from Petrarch to Spenser by Michael Murrin
13		Protestant allegory by Brian Cummings
14		Allegorical drama by Blair Hoxby
Pt. IV		The Fall and Rise of Allegory
15		Romanticism's errant allegory by Theresa M. Kelley
16		American allegory to 1900 by Deborah L. Madsen
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'This collection of essays has two uncommon virtues. First is the nature of the project itself ... unprecedented in its chronological and thematic sweep. Secondly, the editors have managed to make a collection that reads as a whole. One can spend time with the essays in this book, ruminating and reflecting on the powerful role that allegory has played in the history of western literature, art, and thought.' Marc Mastrangelo, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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