Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
This approach to allegory, which discriminates among past disputes and present positions, will confirm . . . that the varying sociocultural functions of allegory . . . needed the fuller exposition Dawson has given them.-Frank KermodeDuring the last few years scholars have, really for the first time, begun to take allegorical interpretation seriously as a subject of study. Dawson's book is the best so far. He is careful to situate allegory historically as a cultural practice. Allegory is not a technique of willful misreading or subjective play. It is the way ancient Alexandria, made up as it was of multiple conflicting traditions and incompati…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-07102-5
- EAN: 9780520071025
- Produktnummer: 1145000
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 356 S.
- Masse: 907 g
- Abbildungen: Cloth Over Boards
- Gewicht: 907
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David Dawson is Assistant Professor of Religion at Haverford College.
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