[MGSA-L] Harvard course

Roilos, Panagiotis roilos at fas.harvard.edu
Sat Sep 2 09:35:11 PDT 2017



Dear all,


I would like to draw your attention to the following course:


Sincerely,

Panagiotis Roilos


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ALLEGORY (CompLit 298), Prof. Roilos

Tuesdays 2-4


Investigates major landmarks in the development of allegorization and allegorical literary composition in European tradition. Starting with pseudo-Herakleitos and his allegorical hermeneutics of the Homeric epics, this seminar will study different theoretical explorations and literary manifestations of allegorical discourse from antiquity to modernity - from ancient Greek rhetoric to Neoplatonism, Prudentius, Byzantine literature, Dante, the Romantics, Baudelaire, C. P. Cavafy, to Benjamin and de Man. Topics to be addressed include: personification, ambiguity, hermeneutic double-tonguedness (amphoteroglosia), the interplay between allegory and other tropes and discursive modes (metaphor, metonymy, symbol, parody, satire).



Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies  and Professor of Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
Member of the Governing Board, European Cultural Center of Delphi
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