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Interpretation and Allegory
Antiquity to the Modern Period
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Western literary, philosophical, and religious traditions from Plato and Paul to Augustine and Avicenna have utilized, exploited, or been subjected to allegorical interpretation. Naturally developing a composite picture of interpretive allegory from such a large landscape faces numerous difficulties. As the editor puts it, âto imagine a âdefinitiveâ account of the theory and practice of allegorical interpretation in the West would require something of an allegorical vision in its own right.â With that caveat in mind, however, the international team of contributorsâfrom a variety of disciplinesâoffers a âhistorical and conceptual frameworkâ for understanding interpretive allegory in the West, from antiquity through the early and late medieval and renaissance periods, and from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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Jon Whitman, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer, Department of English, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His numerous studies of allegory include Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique (Oxford/Harvard, 1987).
Winner of 2001 Polonsky Foundation Award for Contribution to Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities.