Interpretation and allegory : : antiquity to the modern period / / edited with introductory essays by Jon Whitman.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 101
• TeilnehmendeR: Whitman, Jon, 1949-
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 101.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (535 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; 1. A Retrospective Forward: Interpretation, Allegory, and Historical Change /; 2. Present Perspectives: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages /; 3. Language, Text, and Truth in Ancient Polytheist Exegesis /; 4. Plato's Soul and the Body of the Text in Philo and Origen /; 5. Theology and Exegesis in Midrashic Literature /; 6. Allegory and Reading God's Book: Paul and Augustine on the Destiny of Israel /; 7. The Utilization of Allegory in Islamic Philosophy /; 8. On Maimonides' Allegorical Readings of Scripture /; 9. Philosophic Allegory in Medieval Jewish Culture: The Crisis in Languedoc (1304-6) /; 10. Philosophy, Commentary, and Mythic Narrative in Twelfth-Century France /; 11. Quadruplex Sensus, Multiplex Modus: Scriptural Sense and Mode in Medieval Scholastic Exegesis /; 12. Present Perspectives: The Late Middle Ages to the Modern Period /; 13. Allegory and Divine Names in Ecstatic Kabbalah /; 14. Boccaccio: The Mythographer of the City /; 15. Renaissance Hieroglyphic Studies: An Overview /; 16. Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change /; 17. Vera Nanatio: Vico's New Science of Mythology /; 18. Allegory as the Trope of Memory: Registers of Cultural Time in Schlegel and Novalis /; 19. Constructions of Allegory/Allegories of Construction: Rethinking History through Benjamin and Freud /; 20. Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology /; Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1280464003; 9786610464005; 1417536500; 9047400151
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited with introductory essays by Jon Whitman.

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 Nägele, 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 .