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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.

Allegory --- Hermeneutics --- History

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Literature --- Allegorie. --- Allegory. --- Literatur.

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Long description: Das Höhlengleichnis des großen Philosophen der Griechen Platon ist allgemein bekannt, es wurde zu dem Vorbild für sechs weitere Höhlengleichnisse aus Antike und byzantinischem Mittelalter. Während das von Aristoteles noch relativ bekannt ist, gilt das für die fünf weiteren Höhlengleichnisse nicht mehr. Der vorliegende Band enthält die Urtexte der sieben Höhlengleichnisse mit deutscher Übersetzung, jedes einzelne Gleichnis wird genau interpretiert. Thema des letzten Kapitels ist die Weiterwirkung bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein; es werden zum Beispiel die Anspielungen bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Clive Staples Lewis oder Luigi Pirandello zitiert und erläutert. Den Abschluß bilden die kurzen Worte des Begründers der neuzeitlichen Philosophie, René Descartes, zum Wesen der Höhle. So erschließt der Band das literarische Genus der Höhlengleichnisse über einen Zeitraum von rund 2 500 Jahren europäischer Geistesgeschichte. Biographical note: Wilhelm Blum, Dr. phil., Jahrgang 1943, hat Klassische Philologie, Geschichte und Philosophie studiert. Anschließend war er tätig in der Erwachsenenbildung, an der Universität und an Gymnasien. Derzeit ist er Lehrer am Maximiliansgymnasium in München. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher und Aufsätze zu verschiedenen Themen der Geistesgeschichte.

Plato's cave (Allegory) --- Allegories.

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Personification, or prosopopeia , the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or ‘face’, is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure’s cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited sustained scholarly attention. The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, France, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries. Personification is susceptible to an approach that balances semiotic analysis, focusing on meaning effects, and phenomenological analysis, focusing on presence effects produced through bodily performance. This dual approach foregrounds the full scope of prosopopoeic discourse—not just the what, but also the how, not only the signified, but also the signifier.

Personification in literature. --- Pathetic fallacy --- Allegory

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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.

Literary semiotics --- Literary rhetorics --- Allegory. --- Allégorie --- Allegory --- Allégorie --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Littérature --- Littérature