10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLEGORIST»
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allegorist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History
5 The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History Michael P.
Steinberg I Between 1934 and 1937, while living in political exile, in financial
panic, and in almost total obscurity, Walter Benjamin wrote the life of Eduard
Fuchs ...
Michael P. Steinberg, 1996
2
The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of ...
Consequently, in response to the puzzling disjointedness of the times, the crisis
of meaning, the peculiar gaze of the allegorist is solicited and aroused,
responsive to the need. That the times are out of joint is reflected in the art of the
allegorist, ...
David Michael Levin, 1999
3
Language and Relation: -- that There is Language
Thus the object's very "emptiness," as Benjamin described it in referring to the "
phenomenology of mourning," is also, for the allegorist, the source of its
allegorical potential: the "negative" is the source of an "enigmatic contemplative ...
4
The Show and the Gaze of Theatre: A European Perspective
If they are thought to underlie allegory as the fundamental principles determining
the constitution of its meaning, the inevitable consequence seems to be
ambiguity. For the things used by the allegorist have no meaning of their own.
They are ...
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Jo Riley, 1997
5
Walter Benjamin and Witold Gombrowicz: Allegory's Immanent ...
CHAPTER THREE THE NECESSARY VIOLENCE OF ALLEGORY: WHERE
GOMBROWICZ'S FORM DETECTS THE TYRANT WITHIN THE ALLEGORIST
Gombrowicz's work, specifically Cosmos and The Marriage, contribute to
Benjaminian ...
6
Re: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and ...
Benjamin observes that the allegorist can make “any person, any object, any
relationship [...] mean absolutely anything else” (175); “The Triumph of the Will” is
also the triumph of the allegorist as the decider on meaning. Yet, the allegorist is
at ...
Robert David Stacey, 2010
7
Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning
But for this very reason, he does not know how to use them — just what the
brooding allegorist knows how to do all too well. Collecting alone, in other words,
is just as inadequate a model for the activity of the materialist critic as is allegory.
8
Against Redemption: Interrupting the Future in the Fiction ...
The collector, for whom “the world is present, and indeed ordered, in each of his
objects,”27 is the polar opposite of the allegorist who attempts to substitute his
own order for the ultimate one he believes is lost. However, “in every collector ...
9
Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking ...
Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics is an innovative attempt to reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin.
10
Essays on Architecture and Other Topics
“Nonetheless—and that is more important than anything that divides them—in
every collector hides an allegorist and in every allegorist a collector.”59 What the
collector gathers is never complete; “and if he were missing only one piece, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALLEGORIST»
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Cannes: 21 Films That Stood Out at the 2015 Festival
Taking aim at the way modern society imposes a narrow definition of marriage on everyone, the crafty Greek allegorist sets out in the darkly ... «Variety, May 15»
Invention of Allegory
For the allegorist, the depiction of a passion as a person is simply a literary device, a personification. For Dante, Amor in the Vita Nuova, is a ... «First Things, Apr 15»
Why Life Can Be a Lot Like Doctor Who
Aside from the very well known Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies is my other favorite allegorist writer. What RTD did for Doctor Who is something ... «moviepilot.com, Feb 15»
Ceridwen Dovey, author of the highly praised Only the Animals …
Dovey, a skilled and subtle allegorist, infuses these testimonies with astonishing freshness and life. PM Newton's Beams Falling, featuring ... «The Australian, Dec 14»
by: public works: Bronwyn Watson
“He is a talented allegorist, possessing the ability to blend narratives in a unique way,” he says. “His images reflect the history of now ... «The Australian, Sep 14»
How Scientists Captured the Brains of Amis and McEwan
It is a sign of his growing confidence as an allegorist that he gets the job done so quickly. But where's the joy? Of McEwan's central addictions ... «The New Republic, Aug 14»
Too much information: how scientists and historians captured the …
It is a sign of his growing confidence as an allegorist that he gets the job done so quickly. But where's the joy? Of McEwan's central addictions ... «New Statesman, Aug 14»
Ghosts in the Stacks
The voyage nearly breaks down with the very first author she grabs, the Afrikaner allegorist Etienne Leroux. He is so “artsy, self-conscious, ... «New Yorker, Jun 14»
Remembering another world in powerfully vivid poems
... that archetypal English-language (and Elizabethan) allegorist of Ireland. Lysaght is preoccupied by how we write and rewrite history and, like ... «Irish Times, Apr 14»
Beyond Race
Rushing describes himself as “an open-ended allegorist,” and his work includes images of a woman with hair of fire, a tattooed angel with ... «San Diego Reader, Feb 14»
