Thinking allegory otherwise /

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Other Authors / Creators:Machosky, Brenda.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: "A Protean Device"
  • 1. Allegory without Ideas
  • Part 1. Performing Allegory
  • 2. Memories and Allegories of the Death Penalty: Back to the Medieval Future?
  • 3. The Mask of Copernicus and the Mark of the Compass: Bruno, Galileo, and the Ontology of the Page
  • 4. The Function of Allegory in Baroque Tragic Drama: What Benjamin Got Wrong
  • Part 2. Allegory in Place
  • 5. Colonial Allegories in Paris: The Ideology of Primitive Art
  • 6. Monuments and Space as Allegory: Town Planning Proposals in Eighteenth-Century Paris
  • Part 3. Revisiting Allegory in the Renaissance
  • 7. Allegory and Female Agency
  • 8. What Knights Really Want
  • 9. Eliding Absence and Regaining Presence: The Materialist Allegory of Good and Evil in Bacon's Fables and Milton's Epic
  • Part 4. New Dimensions for Allegory
  • 10. On Vitality, Figurality, and Orality in Hannah Arendt
  • 11. Allegory and Science: From Euclid to the Search for Fundamental Structures in Modern Physics
  • Index