Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

Contributors viii

Chronology ix

Introduction Rita Copeland Peter T. Struck 1

Part I Ancient Foundations

1 Early Greek allegory Dirk Obink 15

2 Hellenistic allegory and early imperial rhetoric Glenn W. Most 26

3 Origen as theorist of allegory: Alexandrian contexts Daniel Boyarin 39

Part II Philosophy, Theology, and Poetry 200 to 1200

4 Allegory and ascent in Neoplatonism Peter T. Struck 57

5 Allegory in Christian late antiquity Denys Turner 71

6 Allegory in Islamic literatures Peter Heath 83

7 Twelfth-century allegory: philosophy and imagination Jon Whitman 101

Part III Literary Allegory: Philosophy and Figuration

8 Allegory in the Roman de la Rose Kevin Brownlee 119

9 Dante and allegory Albert R. Ascoli 128

10 Medieval secular allegory: French and English Stephanie Gibbs Kamath Rita Copeland 136

11 Medieval religious allegory: French and English Nicolette Zeeman 148

12 Renaissance allegory from Petrarch to Spenser Michael Murrin 162

13 Protestant allegory Brian Cummings 177

14 Allegorical drama Blair Hoxby 191

Part IV The Fall and Rise of Allegory

15 Romanticism's errant allegory Theresa M. Kelley 211

16 American allegory to 1900 Deborah L. Madsen 229

17 Walter Benjamin's concept of allegory Howard Caygill 241

18 Hermeneutics, deconstruction, allegory Steven Mailloux 254

19 Allegory happens: allegory and the arts post-1960 Lynette Hunter 266

Further reading 281

Index 286