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

• Autore: Machosky Brenda
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.915
• Soggetto topico: Allegory; Symbolism in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Structures of appearing
• ISBN: 0-8232-4288-9; 0-8232-4848-8; 0-8232-4632-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463580303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II