Allegory after modernism : a history of a structure of thought
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This project tells a history of allegory from late modernism into the present. It presents case studies of four sites of allegorical thought and practice in late twentieth-century American cultural production, with a focus on post-WWII art, theory, literature, and material culture: Aldous Huxley's psychedelic writings in dialogue with the work of Color Field painter Morris Louis and his critics; the relationship between materiality and hermeneutics in Ken Kesey's communal art project, Furthur; the literary theory of Paul de Man, where allegory becomes conflated with irony; and allegorical structure and performativity in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Understanding allegory as a structure of thought—a transmedial structure based on an urge for meaning-making inherent in the human mind that is modified and adapted in response to evolving historical contexts, circumstances, and pressures—it examines these sites of allegorical transformation to ask how allegory was mobilized, theorized, or used by historical actors working within the limits of their contextual conditions of possibility. In doing so, it asks how recent changes in allegorical form, structure, and function come to shape the mode's contemporary appearance, arguing that allegory's structure undergoes a progressive flattening of levels as its aesthetic transcendence is reimagined as aesthetic immanence
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Cichosz, Maria Magdalena |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Marrinan, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | McGurl, Mark, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Degree committee member | Marrinan, Michael |
| Degree committee member | McGurl, Mark, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Maria Cichosz |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Program in Modern Thought and Literature |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Maria Magdalena Cichosz
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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