Thinking allegory otherwise (Stanford University Press, 2010)
Originates from a conference held at Stanford University in February 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index
Allegory without ideas / Angus J.S. Fletcher -- Memories and allegories of the death penalty : back to the medieval future? / Jody Enders -- The mask of Copernicus and the mark of the compass : Bruno, Galileo, and the ontology of the page / Daniel Selcer -- The function of allegory in baroque tragic drama : what Benjamin got wrong / Blair Hoxby -- Colonial allegories in Paris / Gordon Teskey -- Monuments and space as allegory : town planning proposals in eighteenth-century Paris / Richard Wittman -- Allegory and female agency / Maureen Quilligan -- What knights really want / Stephen Orgel -- Eliding absence and regaining presence : the materialist allegory of good and evil in Bacon's fables and Milton's epic / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- On vitality, figurality and orality in Hannah Arendt / Karen Feldman -- Allegory and science : from Euclid to the search for fundamental structures in modern physics / James J. Paxson
A unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways. The essays are not limited to an examination of literary texts and works of art, and in fact focus on a wide range of topics that includes architecture, philosophy, theatre, science, and law. The book proves the truism that all language is allegorical, and more importantly it shows its consequences. To 'think allegory otherwise' is to think otherwise - to rethink not only the idea of allegory itself, but also the law and its execution, the literality of figurative abstraction, and the figurations upon which even hard science depends