Thinking allegory otherwise
By: edited by Brenda Machosky.
Contributors: Machosky, Brenda.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804763806
Subjects: Allegory -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Originates from a conference held at Stanford University in February 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Allegory without ideas / Angus J.S. Fletcher; title: Memories and allegories of the death penalty : back to the medieval future? / Jody Enders; title: The mask of Copernicus and the mark of the compass : Bruno, Galileo, and the ontology of the page / Daniel Selcer; title: The function of allegory in baroque tragic drama : what Benjamin got wrong / Blair Hoxby; title: Paris and primitive art : the colonial exhibition and its legacy / Gordon Teskey; title: Monuments and space as allegory : town planning proposals in eighteenth-century Paris / Richard Wittman; title: Allegory and female agency / Maureen Quilligan; title: Eliding absence and regaining presence : the materialist allegory of good and evil in Bacon's fables and Milton's epic of evil in Milton's Baconian epic / Catherine Gimelli Martin; title: What knights really want / Stephen Orgel; title: On vitality, figurality and orality in Hannah Arendt / Karen Feldman; title: Allegory and science : from Euclid to the search for fundamental structures in modern physics / James J. Paxson.