Interpretation and Allegory
Anstiquity to the Modern Period
Published on 20. November 2000
Book
Leather / fine binding
500 pages
978-90-04-11039-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is an unparalleled investigation of the theory and practice of interpretation. Concentrating on interpretive allegory, the volume simultaneously opens and organizes new approaches to over two thousand years of critical change. Its diverse topics extend from pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives to postmodern inquiries. Its intersecting lines of analysis are drawn by scholars whose specialities range from ancient and modern literature to art history, comparative religion, and the history of philosophy.
Framed by introductory essays assessing changes in scholarly research on allegory during the past century, the study has four principal parts: I) "Antique Interpretation of Formative Texts"; II) "Medieval Philosophic Designs"; III) "Late Medieval and Renaissance Sign Systems"; IV) "Eighteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theories of Allegory".
This provocative, unique revaluation provides an indispensable framework for future research.
Contributors include: Peter M. Daly, David Dawson, Charles Dempsey, Paula Fredriksen, Warren Zev Harvey, Marc Hirshman, Moshe Idel, Alfred L. Ivry, Robert Lamberton, Joseph Mali, Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, A.J. Minnis, Rainer Naegele, Azade Seyhan, Tobin Siebers, Gregg Stern, Winthrop Wetherbee, and Jon Whitman.
Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period is the recipient of The Polonsky Foundation 2001 Award for Contributions to Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities, praising its unparalleled design and the far-reaching breadth of its research, and the unique framework it provides for future study.
This publication has also been published in paperback.
Framed by introductory essays assessing changes in scholarly research on allegory during the past century, the study has four principal parts: I) "Antique Interpretation of Formative Texts"; II) "Medieval Philosophic Designs"; III) "Late Medieval and Renaissance Sign Systems"; IV) "Eighteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theories of Allegory".
This provocative, unique revaluation provides an indispensable framework for future research.
Contributors include: Peter M. Daly, David Dawson, Charles Dempsey, Paula Fredriksen, Warren Zev Harvey, Marc Hirshman, Moshe Idel, Alfred L. Ivry, Robert Lamberton, Joseph Mali, Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, A.J. Minnis, Rainer Naegele, Azade Seyhan, Tobin Siebers, Gregg Stern, Winthrop Wetherbee, and Jon Whitman.
Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period is the recipient of The Polonsky Foundation 2001 Award for Contributions to Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities, praising its unparalleled design and the far-reaching breadth of its research, and the unique framework it provides for future study.
This publication has also been published in paperback.
Reviews / Votes
"Overall, this is an impressive reference work covering many centuries, religions, philosophers, and texts."Albrecht Classen, Studi Medievali, 2004.
"This anthology of critical and theoretical essays ... will rank as one of the most important and indispensable publications on allegory, medieval or modern...This is a rich and valuable book that will serve scholars well into the future."
James J. Paxson, Speculum, 2003.
"For anyone interested in a grand historical and cross-cultural perspective on allegory and hermeneutics, the value of this volume is unmatched."
Rita Copeland, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2004.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1084 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-11039-7 (9789004110397)
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11/2000
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Persons
Jon Whitman, B.Phil. (1974), Oxford, Ph.D. (1978), Harvard, is Senior Lecturer, Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His numerous studies of allegory include Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique (Oxford UP and Harvard UP, 1987).
Content
Preface
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1. A Retrospective Forward: Interpretation, Allegory, and Historical Change, Jon Whitman
PART I. ANTIQUITY TO THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
2. Present Perspectives: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages [Prologue to chapters 3-11], Jon Whitman
A. ANTIQUE INTERPRETATION OF FORMATIVE TEXTS
3. Language, Text, and Truth in Ancient Polytheist Exegesis, Robert Lamberton
4. Plato's Soul and the Body of the Text in Philo and Origen, David Dawson
5. Theology and Exegesis in Midrashic Literature, Marc Hirshman
6. Allegory and Reading God's Book: Paul and Augustine on the Destiny of Israel, Paula Fredriksen
B. MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHIC DESIGNS
7. The Utilization of Allegory in Islamic Philosophy, Alfred L. Ivry
8. On Maimonides' Allegorical Readings of Scripture, Warren Zev Harvey
9. Philosophic Allegory in Medieval Jewish Culture: The Crisis in Languedoc (1304-6), Gregg Stern
10. Philosophy, Commentary, and Mythic Narrative in Twelfth-Century France, Winthrop Wetherbee
11. Quadruplex Sensus, Multiplex Modus: Scriptural Sense and Mode in Medieval Scholastic Exegesis, A.J. Minnis
PART II. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD
12. Present Perspectives: The Late Middle Ages to the Modern Period [Prologue to chapters 13-20], Jon Whitman
C. LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SIGN SYSTEMS
13. Allegory and Divine Names in Ecstatic Kabbalah, Moshe Idel
14. Boccaccio: The Mythographer of the City, Giuseppe F. Mazzotta
15. Renaissance Hieroglyphic Studies: An Overview, Charles Dempsey
16. Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change, Peter M. Daly
D. EIGHTEENTH- TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEORIES OF ALLEGORY
17. Vera Narratio: Vico's New Science of Mythology, Joseph Mali
18. Allegory as the Trope of Memory: Registers of Cultural Time in Schlegel and Novalis, Azade Seyhan
19. Constructions of Allegory / Allegories of Construction: Rethinking History through Benjamin and Freud, Rainer Naegele
20. Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology, Tobin Siebers
Contributors
Index
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1. A Retrospective Forward: Interpretation, Allegory, and Historical Change, Jon Whitman
PART I. ANTIQUITY TO THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
2. Present Perspectives: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages [Prologue to chapters 3-11], Jon Whitman
A. ANTIQUE INTERPRETATION OF FORMATIVE TEXTS
3. Language, Text, and Truth in Ancient Polytheist Exegesis, Robert Lamberton
4. Plato's Soul and the Body of the Text in Philo and Origen, David Dawson
5. Theology and Exegesis in Midrashic Literature, Marc Hirshman
6. Allegory and Reading God's Book: Paul and Augustine on the Destiny of Israel, Paula Fredriksen
B. MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHIC DESIGNS
7. The Utilization of Allegory in Islamic Philosophy, Alfred L. Ivry
8. On Maimonides' Allegorical Readings of Scripture, Warren Zev Harvey
9. Philosophic Allegory in Medieval Jewish Culture: The Crisis in Languedoc (1304-6), Gregg Stern
10. Philosophy, Commentary, and Mythic Narrative in Twelfth-Century France, Winthrop Wetherbee
11. Quadruplex Sensus, Multiplex Modus: Scriptural Sense and Mode in Medieval Scholastic Exegesis, A.J. Minnis
PART II. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD
12. Present Perspectives: The Late Middle Ages to the Modern Period [Prologue to chapters 13-20], Jon Whitman
C. LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SIGN SYSTEMS
13. Allegory and Divine Names in Ecstatic Kabbalah, Moshe Idel
14. Boccaccio: The Mythographer of the City, Giuseppe F. Mazzotta
15. Renaissance Hieroglyphic Studies: An Overview, Charles Dempsey
16. Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change, Peter M. Daly
D. EIGHTEENTH- TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEORIES OF ALLEGORY
17. Vera Narratio: Vico's New Science of Mythology, Joseph Mali
18. Allegory as the Trope of Memory: Registers of Cultural Time in Schlegel and Novalis, Azade Seyhan
19. Constructions of Allegory / Allegories of Construction: Rethinking History through Benjamin and Freud, Rainer Naegele
20. Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology, Tobin Siebers
Contributors
Index