Allegory revisited
Subtitle: ideals of mankind
By: edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.
Contributors: Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa.; World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning.
Series: Analecta Husserliana ;; v. 41
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Allegory.; Literature -- History and criticism.
Description: Focusing mainly upon language, communication, textuality, etc., as is overwhelmingly today's fashion, we miss the very raison d'etre of literature and language itself. Moving a step further in our investigation of the anthropologic-ontopoietic sources of the life-significance of literature by unravelling the function of imaginatio creatrix in man's self-interpretation-in-existence, this collection seeks to bring forth the royal role of allegory in the fostering of culture.

A conjoint work of human elemental passions and of the human spirit, allegory mediates between the lofty ideals of the highest human striving and the pedestrian realm of facts. Interpretative or theoretical studies encompass allegory - mediaeval, modern and post-modern - in various literatures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning."