[PDF] Allegory And The Ruins Of Walter Benjamin eBook

Author : Lisa Broadfoot
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 1991
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"Walter Benjamin's critical and historical method addresses the problem of conceptualizing a discontinuous history. In The Origin of German Tragic Drama he proposes allegory as an appropriate form for the representation of the past because it drains images of life so that they may be re-presented with the meaning endowed by the allegorist. In a similar way, literary criticism and historical materialism are involved in the process of mortification so that, from the distance of time, truth may be glimpsed. Benjamin privileges the fragmentary form of representation in allegory over the false unity of the artistic symbol. Whereas truth may be fleetingly revealed by the symbol, allegory forces the extended contemplation of history. Benjamin's method is always negative, looking back rather than forward, and his two main preoccupations, Messianism and Marxism, reflect this desire to reclaim the past. Over and above these interests, however, is his profound sense of nihilism in his study of the ruins of human history." --

Author : M. Kronegger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401119465

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Bringing allegory into the light from the neglect into which it fell means focusing on the wondrous heights of the human spirit in its significance for culture. Contemporary philosophies and literary theories, which give pre-eminence to primary linguistics forms (symbol and metaphor), seem to favor just that which makes intelligible communication possible. But they fall short in accounting for the deepest subliminal founts that prompt the mind to exalt in beauty, virtue, transcending aspiration. The present, rich collection shows how allegory, incorporating the soaring of the spirit, offers highlights for culture, with its fluctuations and transformation. This collective effort, rich in ideas and intuitions and covering a vast range of cultural manifestations, is a pioneering work, retrieving the vision of the exalted human spirit, bringing together literature, theatre, music and painting in a variety of revealing perspectives. The authors include: M. Kronegger, Ch. Raffini, J. Smith, J.B. Williamson, H. Ross, M.F. Wagner, F. Divorne, L. Oppenheim, D.K. Heckerl, N. Campi de Castro, P. Saurez Pascual, M. Alfaro Amieiro, H. Fletcher Thompson, R.J. Wilson III, and A. Stensaas. For specialists, students and workers in philosophy, comparative literature, aesthetic phenomenologists and historians of art.

Author : Catherine Gimelli Martin
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
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Presents Milton's epic, PARADISE LOST as an allegorical prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042010185

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Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts, exploring allegory within texts, allegorical readings of texts, and melancholy in texts. Authors studied are Langland and Chaucer, Hoccleve, on his madness, Lydgate and Henryson. Shakespeare's first tetralogy, the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III conclude this investigation of death, mourning, madness and of complaint. Benjamin's writings on allegory inspire this linking, which also considers Dürer, Baldung and Holbein and the dance of the dead motifs. The study sees subjectivity created as obsessional, paranoid, and links melancholia, madness and allegorical creation, where parts of the subject are split off from each other, and speak as wholes. Allegory and melancholy are two modes - a state of writing and a state of being - where the subject fragments or disappears. These texts are aware of the power of death within writing, which makes them, fascinating. The book will appeal to readers of literature from the medieval to the Baroque, and to those interested in critical theory, and histories of visual culture.

Author : Jill Harnesberger
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN : 9783639140422

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By dismantling misconceptions about experience, allegory, and storytelling, my book on Walter Benjamin and Witold Gombrowicz reveals that in the decline of the storyteller the allegorist is the new storyteller. Consequently, the preconceived notions that separate storytelling from allegory should be diminished. The allegorist, whose acts of redemptive rescue forge constellations between elements of the past unknown and unexperienced by anyone in the?present,? finds common ground with the storyteller through a necessary violence, Benjamin's model of allegory - the angel of history. Benjamin's Trauerspiel and Baudelaire studies create a redemptive model for experience - allegory. Moreover, allegory's role in salvaging experience finds its counterpart in another violent model of interruption: Witold Gombrowicz's interhuman church. What allegory salvages in history and inexperience, the interhuman church forms amidst the ruins of language: the inauthentic "sovereign" self.

Author : S. Brent Plate
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9780415969925

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Christopher Burlinson
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846154447

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This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of The Faerie Queene, in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores the ambiguous and fluctuating attention to materiality, objects, and substance in the poetics of The Faerie Queene, and discusses the way that Spenser's creation of allegorical meaning makes use of this materiality, and transforms it. It suggests further that a critical engagement with materiality (which has been so important to the recent study of early modern drama) must come, in the case of allegorical narrative, through a study of narrative and physical space, and in this context it goes on to provide a reading of the spatial dimensions of the poem - quests and battles, forests, castles and hovels - and the spatial characteristics of Spenser's other writings. The book reaffirms the need to place Spenser in his historical contexts - philosophical and scientific, military and architectural - in early modern England, Ireland and Europe, but also provides a critical reassessment of this literary historicism. Dr CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON is a Research Fellow in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Author : Beatrice Hanssen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1998-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520926196

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Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of his thought with great clarity and sophisitication.

Author : Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1478005580

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In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the violence of capitalism, militarism, and the postcolonial state. DeLoughrey examines the work of a wide range of artists and writers—including poets Kamau Brathwaite and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, and authors Keri Hulme and Erna Brodber—whose work addresses Caribbean plantations, irradiated Pacific atolls, global flows of waste, and allegorical representations of the ocean and the island. In examining how island writers and artists address the experience of finding themselves at the forefront of the existential threat posed by climate change, DeLoughrey demonstrates how the Anthropocene and empire are mutually constitutive and establishes the vital importance of allegorical art and literature in understanding our global environmental crisis.