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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463580303321

Autore

Machosky Brenda

Titolo

Structures of appearing [[electronic resource] ] : allegory and the work of literature / / Brenda Machosky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4288-9

0-8232-4848-8

0-8232-4632-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in continental philosophy Styles of piety

Disciplina

809/.915

Soggetti

Allegory

Symbolism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: A phenomenological approach -- Face off: The allegorical image and aesthetics -- A phenomenological reduction: Allegory in the psychomachia -- Changing faces: Dante and Spenser -- The allegorical structure of phenomenology of spirit -- Reconsidering allegory and symbol: Benjamin and Goethe -- Allegory as metonymy: The figure without a face.

Sommario/riassunto

Taking a phenomenological approach to allegory, Structures of Appearing seeks to revise the history of aesthetics, identifying it as an ideology that has long subjugated art to philosophical criteria of judgment. Rather than being a mere signifying device, allegory is the structure by which something appears that cannot otherwise appear. It thus supports the appearance and necessary experience of philosophical ideas that are otherwise impossible to present or represent. Allegory is as central to philosophy as it is to literature. Following suggestions by Walter Benjamin, Machosky argues that a