1st Edition

Allegory Studies Contemporary Perspectives

Edited By Vladimir Brljak Copyright 2022
290 Pages 13 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 13 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 13 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary, cultural, and period-based divides, from its shadowy origins to its uncertain future, and from the... Read more

"Introduction: Allegory Past and Present"

Vladimir Brljak

Chapter 1

"Invoking the Other: Allegory in Theory, from Demetrius to de Man"

Michael Silk

Chapter 2

"The Failures of Allegory and the Allegory of Failure: Dislocation, Time, and Subjectivity, c.1230–1600"

Marco Nievergelt

Chapter 3

"Painted Allegory’s Fortunes in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp"

Lisa Rosenthal

Chapter 4

"Stoics, Origen, Bacon: On the Interconnections of Physics and Allegory"

Kristen Poole

Chapter 5

"Allegory, Ambiguity, Accommodation"

Anthony Ossa-Richardson

Chapter 6

"‘Consigned to a Florida for tropes’: Theorizing Enlightenment Allegory"

Jason J. Gulya

Chapter 7

"Late Modernist Allegory and the Psychedelic Experience"

Maria Cichosz

Chapter 8

"Allegory and the Work of Aboriginal Dreaming/Law/Lore"

Brenda Machosky

Chapter 9

"Allegory and Bodily Imagination"

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Lacey Okonski

"Afterword: The Future of Allegory"

Glenn W. Most

Biography

Vladimir Brljak is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University.