Cambridge Companion to Allegory

Name: Cambridge Companion to Allegory
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ISBN: 9780521680820

ISBN-10: 0521680824

ISBN-13: 9780521680820

Edition: 2010

Authors: Rita Copeland, Peter T. Struck

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Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Rita Copeland is Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.



List of illustrations


Contributors


Chronology


Introduction




Ancient Foundations



Early Greek allegory




Hellenistic allegory and early imperial rhetoric




Origen as theorist of allegory: Alexandrian contexts




Philosophy, Theology, and Poetry 200 to 1200



Allegory and ascent in Neoplatonism




Allegory in Christian late antiquity




Allegory in Islamic literatures




Twelfth-century allegory: philosophy and imagination




Literary Allegory: Philosophy and Figuration



Allegory in the Roman de la Rose




Dante and allegory




Medieval secular allegory: French and English




Medieval religious allegory: French and English




Renaissance allegory from Petrarch to Spenser




Protestant allegory




Allegorical drama




The Fall and Rise of Allegory



Romanticism's errant allegory




American allegory to 1900




Walter Benjamin's concept of allegory




Hermeneutics, deconstruction, allegory




Allegory happens: allegory and the arts post-1960



Further reading


Index