Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West
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Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West
Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West

Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West

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Longxi Zhang (Author)  

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Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical text, is often said to contain a meaning different from what it literally says? How did allegorical readings arise and develop? By looking at such examples as Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Song of Songs and traditional Chinese commentaries on the Confucian classic Book of Poetry, Zhang Longxi discusses allegorical readings from a broad perspective that bridges the usual East/West cultural divide and examines their social and political implications. His approach is wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and cross-disciplinary, exploring allegoresis with regard to religion, philosophy, and literature. In his inquiry into allegory and allegorical interpretation, Zhang examines the idea of a self-explanatory text of the Bible as conceived by Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther; discusses the importance of the literal basis of textual interpretation; and takes up the question of moral responsibility and political allegiance. Zhang, who regards utopia as an allegory of social and political ideas, explores how utopian visions vary in their Chinese and Western expressions, in the process commenting on contemporary literary theory and political readings of literature past and present. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Zhang Longxi is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation and Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Out of the Cultural Ghetto; Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China; and The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West.
  • Contributor: Longxi Zhang
  • Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780801443695
  • Number of Pages: 268
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x25mm
  • Packaged Weight: 907
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Release Date: 2005-10-06
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Zhang Longxi is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation and Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Out of the Cultural Ghetto; Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China; and The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West.

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