Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period

Voorkant
Jon Whitman
BRILL, 2003 - 513 pagina's
Western literary, philosophical, and religious traditions from Plato and Paul to Augustine and Avicenna have utilized, exploited, or been subjected to allegorical interpretation. Naturally developing a composite picture of interpretive allegory from such a large landscape faces numerous difficulties. As the editor puts it, "to imagine a 'definitive' account of the theory and practice of allegorical interpretation in the West would require something of an allegorical vision in its own right." With that caveat in mind, however, the international team of contributors-from a variety of disciplines-offers a "historical and conceptual framework" for understanding interpretive allegory in the West, from antiquity through the early and late medieval and renaissance periods, and from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
 

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Interpretation Allegory
3
Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
33
Platos Soul and the Body of the Text in Philo
89
Theology and Exegesis in Midrashic Literature
109
Paul and Augustine
125
The Utilization of Allegory in Islamic Philosophy
153
Jewish approaches to philosophic allegory
181
Philosophy Commentary and Mythic Narrative
211
Allegory and Divine Names in Ecstatic Kabbalah
317
The Mythographer of the City
349
An Overview
365
SixteenthCentury Emblems and Imprese as Indicators
383
Vicos New Science of Mythology
423
Registers
437
Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology
469
Contributors
487

Scriptural Sense
231
THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD
257

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