Allegory Revisited

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401108980

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Allegory Revisited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Focusing mainly upon language, communication, textuality, etc., as is overwhelmingly today's fashion, we miss the very raison d'être of literature and language itself. Moving a step further in our investigation of the anthropologico-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 lofty ideals of the highest human strivings and the pedestrian realm of facts. Interpretative or theoretical studies encompass allegory -- mediaeval, modern and post-modern -- in various literatures. Among the authors are: Tymieniecka, Kronegger, Jorge Garcia Gomez, V. Osadnik, H. Hellerstein, H. Rudnick, R. Kiefer, V. Fichera, K. Haney, Ch. Raffini, J. Williamson, B. Ross and Sitansu Ray.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401108994

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Allegory Revisited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Author : Vladimir Brljak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000403725

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Allegory Studies by Vladimir Brljak Pdf

Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary, cultural, and period-based divides, from its shadowy origins to its uncertain future, and from the rich variety of its cultural and artistic manifestations to its deep cognitive roots. Allegory is everything we already know it to be: a mode of literary and artistic composition, and a religious as well as secular interpretive practice. As this volume attests, however, it is much more than that—much more than a sum of its parts. Collectively, the phenomena we now subsume under this term comprise a dynamic cultural force which has left a deep imprint on our history, whose full impact we are only beginning to comprehend, and which therefore demands precisely such dedicated cross-disciplinary examination as this book seeks to provide.

Author : Shuang Shen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813546990

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Cosmopolitan Publics by Shuang Shen Pdf

Early twentieth-century China paired the local community to the worldùa place and time when English dominated urban-centered higher and secondary education and Chinese-edited English-language magazines surfaced as a new form of translingual practice. Cosmopolitan Publics focuses on China's "cosmopolitans" Western-educated intellectuals who returned to Shanghai in the late 1920s to publish in English and who, ultimately, became both cultural translators and citizens of the wider world. Shuang Shen highlights their work in publications such as The China Critic and T'ien Hsia, providing readers with a broader understanding of the role and function of cultural mixing, translation, and multilingualism in China's cultural modernity. Decades later, as nationalist biases and political restrictions emerged within China, the influence of the cosmopolitans was neglected and the significance of cosmopolitan practice was underplayed. Shen's encompassing study revisits and presents the experience of Chinese modernity as far more heterogeneous, emergent, and transnational than it has been characterized until now.

Author : Marius Buning
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490598

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T.F. Powys: A Modern Allegorist by Marius Buning Pdf

Author : Kevin K. Durand,Mary K. Leigh
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786487318

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Riddle Me This, Batman! by Kevin K. Durand,Mary K. Leigh Pdf

From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic novels, view motion pictures, and analyze the motifs of the Hero, the Anti-Hero and the Villain. He has also captured the scholarly imagination, telling us much about our society and ourselves. These essays examine how Batman is both the canvas on which our cultural identity is painted, and the Eternal Other that informs our own journeys of understanding. Questions relating to a wide range of disciplines--philosophy, literature, psychology, pop culture, and more--are thoroughly and entertainingly explored, in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans of the Caped Crusader alike.

Author : Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866779

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Interpreting the Parables by Craig L. Blomberg Pdf

Craig Blomberg surveys the contemporary critical approaches to the parables--including those that have emerged in the twenty years since the first edition. This widely used text has taken a minority perspective and made it mainstream, with Blomberg ably defending a limited allegorical approach and offering brief interpretations of all the major parables.

Author : John R. Donahue
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451411529

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The Gospel in Parable by John R. Donahue Pdf

Professor Donahue here argues that "the parables of Jesus" offer a Gospel in miniature, while at the same time giving shape, direction, and meaning to the Gospels in which they appear. "To study the parables of the Gospels is to study the gospel in parable." After surveying recent discussions of parable, metaphor, and narrative, Donahue examines and interprets the parables of Mark, Matthew, and Luke as texts in the context of the theology of each of these Gospels. Finally, he outlines what "The Gospel in Parable" looks like and offers suggestions for the proclamation of parables today.

Author : John P. Meier
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300211900

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V by John P. Meier Pdf

Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues instead that only four parables—those of the Mustard Seed, the Evil Tenants, the Talents, and the Great Supper—can be attributed to the historical Jesus with fair certitude. In this eagerly anticipated fifth volume of A Marginal Jew, John Meier approaches this controversial subject with the same rigor and insight that garnered his earlier volumes praise from such publications as the New York Times and Christianity Today. This seminal volume pushes forward his masterful body of work in his ongoing quest for the historical Jesus.

Author : Greg Forbes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441118790

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The God of Old by Greg Forbes Pdf

This book is a study of the parables unique to the Third Gospel, aiming in particular to establish a link between Luke's choice of these parables and his overall purpose in writing. In comparison to the synoptic kingdom parables, one distinguishing feature of the Lukan parables is their more personal portrait of the character and the nature of God himself. Luke's desire is to demonstrate to his readers, whoever they are, that in Christianity the realization of the Jewish hope has occurred. The parables promote this idea by offering both continuity (OT) and contrast (contemporary Judaism) in their portrait of God. Thus, as well as operating in a parenetic sense, the parables also help to legitimize Luke's argument regarding fulfilment.

Author : Jeffrey Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567607683

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Example Stories by Jeffrey Tucker Pdf

This study challenges the popular notion that four parables in the Gospel of Luke-the Good Samaritan, the Rich Fool, the Rich Man and Lazarus, and the Pharisee and the Toll Collector-are example stories. A wealth of scholars' views on the example stories are scrutinized, with Adolf Jnlicher's pivotal definition receiving special attention. The various criteria used to distinguish between parable and example are assessed from both a literary and a rhetorical perspective in order to ascertain what, if any, formal features are peculiar to the example stories. Tucker shows that attempts to differentiate the example stories from other narrative parables attributed to Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels are largely unsuccessful. The result is that these four parables in the Gospel of Luke can be seen for what they really are.

Author : Ruth Christa Mathieson
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628373318

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Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast by Ruth Christa Mathieson Pdf

Ruth Christa Mathieson’s unique reading of Matthew’s parable of the royal wedding feast (Matt 22:1–14), which concludes with the king’s demand that one of the guests be bound and cast out into the outer darkness, focuses on the means of the underdressed guest’s expulsion. Using sociorhetorical interpretation, Mathieson draws the parable into conversation with early Jewish narratives of the angel Raphael binding hands and feet (1 Enoch; Tobit) and the protocol for expelling individuals from the community in Matt 18. She asserts that readers are invited to consider if the person who is bound and cast out is a danger to the little ones of the community of faith unless removed and restrained.

Author : Werner H. Kelber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253114063

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The Oral and the Written Gospel by Werner H. Kelber Pdf

"A tightly argued and comprehensive treatment of an important area of New Testament studies." -- The Christian Century "By distinguishing oral from written modes of transmission, Kelber skillfully unlocks new doors for biblical interpretation." -- Theology Today What happens when speech turns into text? Spoken words, operating from mouth to ear, process knowledge differently from writing which links the eye to the visible, but silent letters on the page. Based on this premise, Werner Kelber discusses orality and writing, and the interaction between the two, at strategic points in the early Christian traditions. In digressing from conventional literary criticism, the book offers new, and often startling insights into the origins of Christianity.

Author : W. D. Davies,Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567083659

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Matthew 8-18 by W. D. Davies,Dale C. Allison, Jr. Pdf

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis — linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to secure a uniform theological or critical approach to the biblical text: contributors have been invited for their scholarly distinction, not for their adherence to any one school of thought. The first paperback editions to be published cover the heart of the New Testament, providing a wealth of information and research in accessible and attractive format.

Author : Bruce D. Chilton,Craig A. Evans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004379893

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Studying the Historical Jesus by Bruce D. Chilton,Craig A. Evans Pdf

This volume offers critical assessments of Life of Jesus research in the last generation, with special emphasis on work that is quite recent. It will introduce graduate students to the field and will provide the veteran scholar with current bibliography and discussion of the issues. Topics treated include Jesus and Palestinian politics, Jesus tradition in Paul, Jesus in extracanonical Gospels, and Jesus' parables, miracles, death, and resurrection. The contributors are among the most widely recognized and respected Life of Jesus scholars. They include Marcus J. Borg, James H. Charlesworth, James D.G. Dunn, Sean Freyne, Richard Horsley, and Helmut Koester.