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Symbolism in literature --- History --- Influence

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Allegory. --- Literature --- Mythology, Classical. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Philosophy. --- Allegory --- Mythology, Classical --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Classical mythology --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Philosophy --- Theory --- Allegories

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This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.

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"In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision." "Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history and to major works within the medieval literary canon, Seeing through the Veil will be an essential resource to the study of medieval literature and culture, as well as philosophy, history of art, and history of science."--Jacket.

Literature, Medieval --- Allegory. --- Optics in literature. --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- History and criticism. --- Littérature médiévale --- Allégorie --- Optique dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- Old French literature --- Italian literature --- Allegory --- Optics in literature --- History and criticism --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women college teachers --- DISCOUNT-C. --- Women as college teachers --- College teachers --- Women in higher education --- Women teachers --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Allegorie --- Italienisch. --- Mittelenglisch. --- Mittelfranzösisch.