Allegory Revisited: Ideals of Mankind

405 Pages·1994·7.361 MB·English

by  Marlies Kronegger (auth.), Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (eds.)

ALLEGORY REVISITED
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME XLI
Editor- in-Chief:
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
ALLEGORY VOLUMES
Book 1 Allegory Revisited: Ideals of Mankind
Book 2 Allegory Old and New: In Literature, the Fine Arts, Music
and Theatre, and Its Continuity in Culture
A L L E G O RY R E V I S I T ED
Ideals of Mankind
Edited by
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECK A
The World Phenomenolog yInstitute
Published under the auspices of
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenologica Rl esearc hand Learning
A-T. Tymieniecka, President
W
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA , B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Allegor y revisite d ideal s o f mankind / edite d b y Anna-Teresa
:
Tym i en 1ecka.
p. cm . — (Analect a Husserlian a ; v. 41 )
Includes index .
ISBN 0-7923-2312-2 (H B : alk . paper)
1. Allegory . 2 . Literature—Histor y an d criticism .
I. Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. II . Series .
PN56.A5A34 199 3
809'.915~dc20 93-1059 3
ISBN 978-94-010-4388-5 ISBN 978-94-011-0898-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-0898-0
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Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1994
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
THE THEME I Passions Soaring toward Ideals xi
PART ONE
IDEALS ELEVATING REALITY
MARLIES KRONEGGER I Allegorical Journeys toward the
Wholeness and Unity of the Sea: Marguerite Yourcenar 3
ROSEMARIE KIEFFER I Life and Myth: The Mother in Chinghiz
Aitmatov's Literary Creation 17
SARA F. GARCfA-G6MEZ I In Humble Conformity: Cipher and
Vision in Jorge Guillen's Poetry 31
SITANSU RAY I Women in Taser Desh (The Land of Cards):
Tagorean Ideals towards Humanistic Liberation 59
PART TWO
THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE ENHANCED
DANNY L. SMITH I War and the Body in Lysistrata: Marriage
and the Family under Siege 65
KATHLEEN HANEY I Allegorical Time 79
KATHRYN L. McKINLEY I The Roman de la rose:
Psychological Interiority in Medieval Allegory 93
JOAN B. WILLIAMSON I Allegory in the Work of Philippe de
Mezieres 107
VIRGINIA M. FICHERA I Allegory and the Performative in
Jacques Ie Fataliste 123
KATHARINE G. MacCORNACK I Subjective Experience in
Allegorical Worlds: Four Old French Literary Examples 133
v
vi T ABLE OF CONTENTS
PART THREE
FREEDOM, DESTINY, THE SOARING OF THE SOUL
JORGE GARCfA-G6MEZ I Type and Concept in Lazarillo de
Tormes: Self-Knowledge and the Spanish Picaresque Narrative 145
RICHARD HULL I Ortega y Gasset, Phenomenology and Quixote 179
DA VID L. MOSLEY I Music and Language in Joyce's "The
Dead" 191
MARJORIE HELLERSTEIN I Between the Acts: Virginia Woolf's
Modern Allegory 201
HANS H. RUDNICK I Camus' Caligula: An Allegory? 213
ERIN MITCHELL I Beckett's Waiting for Godot as Allegory 227
BRUCE ROSS I A Poetics of Absence: Kabbalist Allegory in
the Poetry of Paul Ce1an, Edmond Jabes, and David Meltzer 241
a
PAUL ALEXANDRU GEORGESCU I Nouvelle Approche
a
l' Allegorie avec Reference Octavio Paz et Marin Sorescu 267
PART F,OUR
ALLEGORY, A LITERARY ENIGMA
JERRE COLLINS AND RAYMOND WILSON I The Broken
Allegory: Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child as Narrative
Theodicy _ 277
RA YMOND J. WILSON III I Ricoeur's "Allegory" and
Jakobson's Metaphoric/Metonymic Principles 293
J. ROBERT BAKER I The Radiant Veil: Persistence and
Permutations 303
LEO RAUCH I Imagery and Allegory in Philosophy 315
SHONA ELIZABETH SIMPSON lOne Face Less: Masks, Time
and the Telling of Stories in Tahar ben Jelloun's The Sand
Child 325
VICTOR KOCA Y I Literary Criticism as Allegory: Sartre's Saint
Genet 333
PART FIVE
ANNEX
MICHAEL BARBER / The Fragmentation and Social Recon-
struction of the Past in Toni Morrison's Beloved 347
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
J6HANNA TH. EIRfKSD6TTIR HULL / "We Are Not the
Same": Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay and the
Phenomenological Reduction 359
MElLI STEELE / Explanation, Understanding and Incom
mensurability in Psychoanalysis 367
ALICJA HELMAN, WAC LAW M. OSADNIK, LUKASZ
PLESNAR AND EUGENIUSZ WILK / Some Remarks on the
Application of Ingarden's Theory to Film Studies 377
ROGER L. BROOKS / Phenomenology and Matthew Arnold: An
Uncollected Episode 399
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INDEX OF NAMES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks are due to my assistant Louis T. Houthakker for his precious
help in preparing this volume for production and to Robert Wise for
proofreading and the preparation of the index.
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THE THEME
PASSIONS SOARING TOWARD IDEALS:
Allegory and the Ideals of Mankind
Why yoke allegory and the ideals of humankind? What has happened
to human ideals anyway? As for allegory, it seems to have vanished from
the cultural and artistic expression of our times altogether. Yet the
question arises: can human life reach its full compass without ideals
and without the allegories that incarnate them?
Let me submit a brief argument vindicating them both for all times
and cultures.
In our progressive common exploration of how the elemental passions
of the soul on the wings of the creative imagination give rise to the
life of the human spirit, we could not fail to encounter ideals, and allegory
too as the poetic form incarnating and conveying ideals. However, the
allegory that pervaded classical literature, art, culturallsocietallife appears
at present to be quaint, antiquarian, a remnant of the past. As for ideals,
the tum of modem civilization away from idealization and apotheosis,
away from searching for and marveling at unusual, extraordinary, out
standing happenings and individuals, seems to have cast them into
oblivion. Ideals are now so diluted they have at most but a faint reality.
They have been, in fact, swept away from life and from literary
criticism as well. The tum of our civilization away from a focus on
"greatness" and toward an appreciation of the "common" human being
seems to follow from the "revolt of the masses" against political and
social tyranny, oppression, social injustice of all kinds, on the one hand,
and the rise of the universal recognition of the claim to dignity of every
human being regardless of social prerogatives, power, station in life, etc.,
on the other. Hence, the dismantling of the entire culture of apotheosis
which carried Western civilization to its heights. In the wake of the
discovery that all human beings are worthy of respect, that everyday
life calls for power of will, the surmounting of difficulties, courage,
and perseverance deserving of as much praise as the deeds of great
kings and heroes, greatness has been less exalted and extraordinary deeds
of exceptional human beings given less social importance. It is average,
common individuals that have become the focus of appreciation, their
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