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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aristotle and the allegorical aesthetic: Poetry and the limits of philosophy from Alan of Lille to Edmund Spenser
Abstract
dc:description"Kant and Goethe distinguish allegory from symbol by associating allegory with rational abstraction and symbol with the attempt to grasp the divine. By applying this understanding of allegory to the allegorical works in the period when Aristotle dominated philosophical thought, we can correlate the development of allegorical literature to the development of Aristotelian thought. The analysis suggests that the allegorists studied were grappling with the problem of how to wrest a description of the divine from philosophical language, a problem which, as Derrida observes, involves moving beyond ""the limits of philosophy."""
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Heise, William Earnshaw
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Klein, Joan L.
Subjects
dc:subject × 5Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1996 Heise, William Earnshaw
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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9780591198935
AAI9712303
(UMI)AAI9712303 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22124