Thinking allegory otherwise / edited by Brenda Machosky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Machosky, Brenda.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allegory--Congresses.

Allegory.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]

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 : the ideology of primitive art / 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.

Notes:

Originates from a conference held at Stanford University in February 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780804763806

0804763801

OCLC:

426066175

Publisher Number:

99937205972