1. Allegory without Ideas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction: “A Protean Device” 1
6. 1. Allegory without Ideas 9
7. Part one: Performing Allegory
8. 2. Memories and Allegories of the Death Penalty: Back to the Medieval Future? 37
9. 3. The Mask of Copernicus and the Mark of the Compass: Bruno, Galileo, and the Ontology of the Page 60
10. 4. The Function of Allegory in Baroque Tragic Drama: What Benjamin Got Wrong 87
11. Part two: Allegory in Place
12. 5. Colonial Allegories in Paris: The Ideology of Primitive Art 119
13. 6. Monuments and Space as Allegory: Town Planning Proposals in Eighteenth-Century Paris 142
14. Part three: Revisiting Allegory in the Renaissance
15. 7. Allegory and Female Agency 163
16. 8. What Knights Really Want 188
17. 9. Eliding Absence and Regaining Presence: The Materialist Allegory of Good and Evil in Bacon’s Fables and Milton’s Epic 208
18. Part four: New Dimensions for Allegory
19. 10. On Vitality, Figurality, and Orality in Hannah Arendt 237
20. 11. Allegory and Science: From Euclid to the Search for Fundamental Structures in Modern Physics 249
21. Index 265