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Structures of Appearing - Allegory and the Work of Literature (Hardcover)
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Structures of Appearing - Allegory and the Work of Literature (Hardcover)
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Taking a phenomenological approach to allegory, Structures of
Appearing seeks to revise the history of aesthetics, identifying it
is an ideology that has long subjugated art to philosophical
criteria of judgment. Rather than being a mere signifying device,
allegory is the structure by which something appears that cannot
otherwise appear. It thus supports the appearance and necessary
experience of philosophical ideas that are otherwise impossible to
present or represent. Allegory is as central to philosophy as it is
to literature. Following suggestions by Walter Benjamin, Machosky
argues that allegory itself must appear allegorically and thus
cannot be forced into a logos-centric metaphysical system. She
builds on the work of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas to
argue that the allegorical image is not a likeness to anything, not
a subjective reflection, but an absolute otherness that becomes
accessible by virtue of its unique structure. Allegory thus makes
possible not merely the textual work of literature but the work
that literature is. Machosky develops this insight in readings of
Prudentius, Dante, Spenser, Hegel, Goethe, and Kafka.
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