TY  - BOOK
AU  - Machosky,Brenda
TI  - Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature 
SN  - 9780823242849
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: A Phenomenological Approach to Allegory --; 1 Face Off : The Allegorical Image and Aesthetics --; 2 A Phenomenological Reduction: Allegory in Prudentius’ Psychomachia --; 3 The Changing Faces of Allegory: Dante and Spenser --; 4 The Allegorical Structure of Phenomenology of Spirit --; 5 Reconsidering Allegory and Symbol: Benjamin and Goethe --; 6 Allegory as Metonymy: The Figure without a Face --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Taking a phenomenological approach to allegory, Structures of Appearing seeks to revise the history of aesthetics, identifying it is an ideology that has long subjugated art to philosophical criteria of judgment. Rather than being a mere signifying device, allegory is the structure by which something appears that cannot otherwise appear. It thus supports the appearance and necessary experience of philosophical ideas that are otherwise impossible to present or represent. Allegory is as central to philosophy as it is to literature. Following suggestions by Walter Benjamin, Machosky argues that allegory itself must appear allegorically and thus cannot be forced into a logos-centric metaphysical system. She builds on the work of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas to argue that the allegorical image is not a likeness to anything, not a subjective reflection, but an absolute otherness that becomes accessible by virtue of its unique structure. Allegory thus makes possible not merely the textual work of literature but the work that literature is. Machosky develops this insight in readings of Prudentius, Dante, Spenser, Hegel, Goethe, and Kafka
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292653
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