Interpretation and allegory : antiquity to the modern period

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Preface GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1. A Retrospective Forward: Interpretation, Allegory, and Historical Change, Jon Whitman PART I. ANTIQUITY TO THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 2. Present Perspectives: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages [Prologue to chapters 3-11], Jon Whitman A. ANTIQUE INTERPRETATION OF FORMATIVE TEXTS 3. Language, Text, and Truth in Ancient Polytheist Exegesis, Robert Lamberton 4. Plato's Soul and the Body of the Text in Philo and Origen, David Dawson 5. Theology and Exegesis in Midrashic Literature, Marc Hirshman 6. Allegory and Reading God's Book: Paul and Augustine on the Destiny of Israel, Paula Fredriksen B. MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHIC DESIGNS 7. The Utilization of Allegory in Islamic Philosophy, Alfred L. Ivry 8. On Maimonides' Allegorical Readings of Scripture, Warren Zev Harvey 9. Philosophic Allegory in Medieval Jewish Culture: The Crisis in Languedoc (1304-6), Gregg Stern 10. Philosophy, Commentary, and Mythic Narrative in Twelfth-Century France, Winthrop Wetherbee 11. Quadruplex Sensus, Multiplex Modus: Scriptural Sense and Mode in Medieval Scholastic Exegesis, A.J. Minnis PART II. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD 12. Present Perspectives: The Late Middle Ages to the Modern Period [Prologue to chapters 13-20], Jon Whitman C. LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SIGN SYSTEMS 13. Allegory and Divine Names in Ecstatic Kabbalah, Moshe Idel 14. Boccaccio: The Mythographer of the City, Giuseppe F. Mazzotta 15. Renaissance Hieroglyphic Studies: An Overview, Charles Dempsey 16. Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change, Peter M. Daly D. EIGHTEENTH- TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEORIES OF ALLEGORY 17. Vera Narratio: Vico's New Science of Mythology, Joseph Mali 18. Allegory as the Trope of Memory: Registers of Cultural Time in Schlegel and Novalis, Azade Seyhan 19. Constructions of Allegory / Allegories of Construction: Rethinking History through Benjamin and Freud, Rainer Nagele 20. Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology, Tobin Siebers Contributors Index

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