By Senior Lecturer of English Literature Jon Whitman
An research of the speculation and perform of interpretation. focusing on interpretive allegory, the quantity at the same time opens and organizes new techniques to over 2000 years of severe swap. Its themes expand from Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic views to postmodern inquiries. Its intersecting strains of study are drawn via students whose specialities diversity from historic and sleek literature to paintings background, comparative faith, and the background of philosophy. Framed by way of introductory essays assessing adjustments in scholarly examine on allegory through the twentieth century, the research has 4 primary elements: vintage interpretation of formative texts; medieval philosophic statement; past due Medieval and Renaissance sigh platforms; and 18th- to 20th-century theories of allegory.
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These are not the only approaches to 'units' of analysis, of course, and I want to stress that these four categories themselves are not 'pure' classifications. But perhaps they can provide an entry into the historically shifting relation between text and interpretation in late antiquity. i. Ancient Homeric interpretation: the 'logic' of the text From its early stages, Greek allegory seeks to specify an underlying 'logic' (logos) for various passages of a story (mythos). , the references above in chapter 1, n.
63-86. 1987 = Whitman, Jon. Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique. , 1987. 1991 = Whitman, Jon. "' New Literary History 22 (1991): 161-76. 1993a = Whitman, Jon. 'Allegory. I. ' The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. F. Brogan, et al. Princeton, 1993. 31-5. 1993b — Whitman, Jon. Rev. of La tradition de I'allegorie de Philon d'Alexandrie a. Dante: Etudes historiques, by Jean Pepin. Speculum 68 (1993): 236-9. Wind, Edgar. Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance.
