Trope and Allegory
Author | : Francis Fergusson |
Publisher | : Athens : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Allegory |
ISBN | : 9780820304106 |
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Author | : Francis Fergusson |
Publisher | : Athens : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Allegory |
ISBN | : 9780820304106 |
Author | : Rita Copeland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2010-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827898 |
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.
Author | : G. R. Boys-Stones |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-03-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191528862 |
According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. This volume provides a critical discussion of ancient definitions of allegory and metaphor as merely ornamental 'tropes'. They examine metaphor and allegory from a variety of perspectives and compare theory with ancient literary practice.
Author | : Eve Bunting |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2022-01-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0827611749 |
The animals in the clearing were content until the Terrible Things came, capturing all creatures with feathers. Little Rabbit wondered what was wrong with feathers, but his fellow animals silenced him. "Just mind your own business, Little Rabbit. We don't want them to get mad at us." A recommended text in Holocaust education programs across the United States, this unique introduction to the Holocaust encourages young children to stand up for what they think is right, without waiting for others to join them. Ages 6 and up
Author | : Roger Travis |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780847696093 |
In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintilian's definition of allegory as extended metaphor, Travis argues that in Oedipus at Colonus the chorus of old men forms an allegorical relationship with the aged Oedipus, which depends in turn upon the chorus's own likeness to the Athenian audience. The play relates Oedipus allegorically to the audience through the tragic chorus and transforms Oedipus' relation to the body of his mother Jocasta into a new relation to the land of Attica. Corresponding readings of Aeschylus' Suppliants and Euripides' Bacchea further explore the chorus's role in expressing the relation of the individual to the maternal body. Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence. The introduction provides a useful survey of the advantages and disadvantages of various psychological approaches to tragedy, making this an important volume for students and scholars alike.
Author | : Michael Slater |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040013945 |
Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly regard as the “scientific revolution” inevitably bore literary dimensions as well. Literary tropes and forms underwent tremendous reassessment in the seventeenth century, and early modern science was shaped just as powerfully by contest over the place of literary figures, from personification and metaphor to anamorphosis and allegory. In their rejection of teleological explanations of natural motion, for instance, early modern philosophers often disputed the value of personification, a figural projection of interiority onto what was becoming increasingly a mechanical world. And allegory—a dominant mode of literature from the late Middle Ages until well into the Renaissance—became “the vice of those times,” as Thomas Rymer described it in 1674. This book shows that its acute devaluation was possible only in conjunction with a distinctively modern physics. Analyzing writings by Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Hobbes, Descartes, and more, it asserts that the scientific revolution was a literary phenomenon, just as the literary revolution was also a scientific one.
Author | : Suk Kwan Wong |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2017-02-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532612230 |
Allegory in the parables of Jesus has never been addressed properly. By studying the allegorical features in parables and evaluating some former parable theories, current study hopes to bring insight to the hermeneutics of allegory in the parables of Jesus.
Author | : Albert Charles Hamilton |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780802079237 |
A reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.
Author | : Lee A. Sonnino |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2023-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000856666 |
First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric. It gathers together the information provided by the various different authorities who contributed to the education of the renaissance author, particularly the writer in English. These authorities include key classical rhetoricians he would probably have read, well-known and important renaissance rhetoricians, and the writers of vernacular treatises and of major school textbooks. The information is arranged in a schematic and tabular form, so that enquiry can start from the object, the particular rhetorical form as it appears in a given literary text. The core of the book is the central section on elocutio, the art of using the devices of rhetorical ornament.
Author | : Whitman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2022-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004453598 |
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.