Thinking allegory otherwise /
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | xi, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7925544 |
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