Allegory Old and New: In Literature, the Fine Arts, Music and Theatre, and Its Continuity in Culture

ISBN-13: 9789401176491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 340 str.

Marlies Kronegger;Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Opis

Bringing allegory into the light from the neglect into which it fell means focusing on the wondrous heights of the human spirit in its significance for culture. Contemporary philosophies and literary theories, which give pre-eminence to primary linguistics forms (symbol and metaphor), seem to favor just that which makes intelligible communication possible. But they fall short in accounting for the deepest subliminal founts that prompt the mind to exalt in beauty, virtue, transcending aspiration. The present, rich collection shows how allegory, incorporating the soaring of the spirit, offers highlights for culture, with its fluctuations and transformation. This collective effort, rich in ideas and intuitions and covering a vast range of cultural manifestations, is a pioneering work, retrieving the vision of the exalted human spirit, bringing together literature, theatre, music and painting in a variety of revealing perspectives. The authors include: M. Kronegger, Ch. Raffini, J. Smith, J.B. Williamson, H. Ross, M.F. Wagner, F. Divorne, L. Oppenheim, D.K. Heckerl, N. Campi de Castro, P. Saurez Pascual, M. Alfaro Amieiro, H. Fletcher Thompson, R.J. Wilson III, and A. Stensaas. For specialists, students and workers in philosophy, comparative literature, aesthetic phenomenologists and historians of art.

Spis treści

Section I: Allegory and Maxim: Power and Faith, Passions and Virtues; M. Kronegger. Allegory and the Dramatic Foundations of the Medieval Theater; J. Smith. Balzac's Allegories of Energy in La comédie humaine; C. Raffini. Oracle et allégorie dans Andromède de Pierre Corneille; H. Visentin. Allegory Then and Now: the Physician and Disease; J.B. Williamson. Michael Drayton's `'Ideas' and the `Where' and the `Whence' of Allegory; H. Ross. Section II: Les conquêtes de la Toison d'or of 1661 and 1683: the Breakdown of the Sun Allegory; M.-F. Wagner. Le jeu allégorique chez Poussin: Les Putti comme emblème dans Trancrède et Herminie; F. Divorne. Michel Butor's L'embarquement de la Reine de Saba: an Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience; L. Oppenheim. Paul de Man and the Question of `Domination Free' Allegory; D.K. Heckerl. Allegory, You are Woman; N. Campi de Castro. Section II: L'allégorie du mal. Deux époques, deux perspectives; P. Suárez Pascual, M. Alfaro Amieiro. From Metaphor to Matter: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and the Subject of Sight; H. Fletcher Thompson. Paranoia and the Aesthetics of Chaos in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow; G.B. Moore. Metaphoric and Metonymic Allegory: Ricoeur, Jakobson, and the Poetry of W.B. Yeats; R.J. Wilson III. The Transformed and Transforming Image in the Shift from Print to Digital Culture; S. Stensaas. Section IV: Billy Budd: an Allegory on the Rights of Man; C. Michael. Political Allegory: Bakhtin, Jameson and Birago Diop's Les contes d'Amadou Koumba; K.W. Brewer. The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percy's Will Berrett; B. Prochaska. The Possibility of aPhenomenology of the Text. From and Against Postmodernism; P. Vandevelde. Gustav Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen as Song and Symphonic Movement: Abduction, Over-Coding, and Catachresis; D.L. Mosley. Madana (the Mythical Love-God) in Kalidasa and Tagore; S. Ray. Annex: Freedom and Creativity; Z. Zvie Bar-On.

O autorze

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".