Abel, Lionel
Abraham a Sancta Clara, 321
abstraction, 136, 194, 233, 284, 325, 386
Adorno, Theodor W., 32, 66, 114, 134, 139, 141, 152, 303
breakthrough notion of, 144–47, 148, 149
on Mahler, 135, 143, 145, 146–47
on musical form, 130, 142, 149
on narrative, 122–23
on Threepenny Opera, 321
aesthetics, 33, 46, 88, 98, 292, 312
artistic autonomy in, 146
beginnings and ending in, 125–26
affect, 80
named emotions and, 44, 59, 66, 157, 200, 279, 280, 283, 310, 320, 325, 347
theoretical conception of, 44, 59, 66, 200
affective allegory, 325
affect theory, 31, 76, 77, 80–81
Ousmane Sembene depiction of, 179–85
agitation, 155–56
Albee, Edward, 76
Alewyn, Richard, 292–93, 295–96
Alexander, 12
forms of allegorical, 38–39, 72
nomination and, 54–55
allegory’s distinction from, 3, 10, 52, 140, 260
characteristics of, 310
defined, 25
in postmodernity, 309–48
allegorical/mystical level of allegory, xiv, 18, 152, 213, 308
in postmodernity, 310–11, 340, 343
allegory. See allegorical/mystical level of allegory; anagogic level of allegory; bad allegory; dual allegorical scheme; fourfold allegorical system; literal level of allegory; moral level of allegory; national allegory; one-to-one allegory; traditional allegory; tripartite allegorical scheme
Almen, Bryan, 122
Althusser, Louis, x, xii, xiii, 334
anagogic level of allegory, xvii, 117, 190, 213, 308
Mahler and, 151–52
in postmodernity, 310–11, 328, 329, 332, 338–39, 340, 343
concept of, 41–42
anarchism and anarchists, 206, 380
Anderson, Benedict, 193
Aristotle on, 68–69, 73–74, 77
Greimas square and, 73–75
The Antinomies of Realism (Jameson), 44
Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari), 96
Aristotle, 61, 101, 244, 269, 279
on emotions and passions, 65, 66, 67–69, 74, 76, 77, 155
on pairing of opposites, 50, 52, 67
on substance, 52–53
works
Nichomachean Ethics, 236
art for art’s sake, 311–12
asabiyya, xvi, xix, 196–97, 198, 212
atonality, 133–34
Auerbach, Erich, 273–74, 277, 283
attacks on allegory by, 272, 273
figura doctrine of, 2, 18, 251–52, 253, 273
Mimesis, 273–75
Augé, Marc, 319n
Confessions, 222
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 202, 328
autoreferentiality, 21, 27, 28–29, 375
Autos sacramentales, 294–95
Bachelard, Gaston, 52
bad allegory, xvii, 6, 9, 16, 64, 119–20, 148, 264
symbolism and, 270–71
Badiou, Alain, 32, 45, 46–47, 48, 79
The Theory of the Subject, 46, 47
Bahro, Rudolph, 174
Ballard, J. G., 352–53
Balzac, Honoré de, 271, 296–97, 312, 318, 338
Banfield, Ann, 8
Baroque
Barthes, Roland, 128, 255, 312, 318, 341
Degré zéro de l’écriture, 26
base and superstructure, x, 210–12
Baudelaire, Charles, 31–32, 139, 208, 277, 318, 334
Bazin, André, 272
Becker, Paul, 144
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 127, 134, 146, 157, 290
Wagner on, 119–21
Benjamin, Walter, 3, 21, 32, 33, 199n, 281, 294, 319
allegory theory of, 22, 26, 30–33, 332
on desirability of the symbol, 23–24
historical perspective of, 37, 45
on Trauerspiel and Tragödie, 22, 87, 88, 90, 101, 111–12n, 114
Bennett, William, 162
Berg, Alban
Wozzek, 321
Berger, Harry, 226, 239–40, 241
Bergson, Henri, 362
Bernstein, Leonard, 139
binary oppositions, 311
body-mind, 65
good-evil, 51, 242, 243–44, 245, 300
individual-collective, xi–xii, xiii, xvi–xviii, 19, 310
minimalism-maximalism, 249, 313–15, 316, 317, 324, 326, 327, 328, 341, 344–45, 355
negative-positive, 65–66
pain-pleasure, 65, 72, 78, 241
private-public, 165
subject-object, x, xi, xiii, 15, 80–81, 364, 365
Blake, William, 23
Bloch, Marc, 85
Bloomfield, Morton W., 65
body-mind dichotomy, 65
Bohr, Niels, 194
Bolaño, Roberto
2666, 124
bourgeois revolutions, 2–3, 22, 289
Braudel, Fernand, 330
breakthrough notion, 144–47, 148, 149
Brecht, Bertolt, 37, 92, 105, 172, 297, 301
on Hamlet, 84–85
Mann ist Mann, 323
The Threepenny Opera, 306, 321–25
Browning, Robert
“My Last Duchess,” 255
Buchanan, Pat, 387
Pilgrim’s Progress, 220–21, 222, 234
Burckhardt, Jacob, 354–55, 356
Byron, Lord, 292, 293, 294, 303
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 31
La Vida es sueño, 114
The Myth of Sisyphus, 7
Can Grande della Scala, 236, 251, 253
Cantor, Georg, 46
capitalism, 21, 28, 184, 190, 205, 328–29
emergence of, 84, 114–15, 130–31, 164, 188, 268
globalization of, 26, 79, 137, 164, 309
late, 10, 25, 34, 37, 117, 153, 309, 314, 334, 335, 359
nation-state and, 25–26
superstructure of, 210–12
Cartesian Theater model, 363, 364, 366, 367, 368, 369, 372
Cavalcanti, Guido, 261, 262, 264–65
Cazotte, Jacques
Diable amoureux, 103–4
centered subject, 15, 28, 161, 176, 369, 379
Cervantes, Miguel de, 217
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge
Winter Sleep, 76
Cézanne, Paul, 147
Lu Xun allegories on, 167–75
national identity of, 207–9
Chrétien de Troyes, 217
Christian allegory, 21–22
Christianity, 3–4, 20, 64, 98, 239, 266, 268
typology of, 252
Cinema II (Deleuze), 99
Clark, Christopher
The Sleepwalkers, 201–5
classicism, 295, 296, 299, 301–2, 303
class struggle, vii, 96, 188, 198
ethnic struggle and, 387–88
Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), 336–41
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 3, 22, 23, 92–93, 102, 170, 224
collectivity, 77, 200, 210, 213
conceptualization of, 194–95
group consciousness (asabiyya) and, xvi, xix, 196–97, 198, 212
ideology and, xi–xii, xiii, 197
individual and, xvi–xvii, 19, 310
unrepresentability of, 195, 214
Commedia. See Dante
Alighieri—Commedia
commodification, 28, 66, 79, 146, 289, 346, 363
common sense, 38, 52–53, 204, 207, 363
computers, 366
condensation, 240
consciousness
allegorical explanations for, 361–82
group, xvi, xix, 196–97, 198, 212
impersonal nature of, 14–15
personal identity and, 363, 369–70
of self, xiii, 28, 53–54, 71, 126, 284, 355, 367, 368–69
situational, 185
tripartite allegory and, 15–16
unconscious and, xvii, 55, 57, 87, 88–89, 97–98, 104–5, 116, 202
Consciousness Explained (Dennett), 14–15, 361–82
as political allegory, 381–82
constructed subjectivity, 53–54, 238
Croce, Benedetto, 13, 233, 261, 263, 355
cultural imperialism, 163, 181, 185n
cultural studies, 163, 166, 388
culture
evolution and emergence of, 375–76
group relations and, 383–88
identity and, 176
ideology and, x
politics and, 217–18
third-world, 163, 165, 168, 185, 186
Dadaism, 29
Dahlhaus, Carl, 133–34
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 217
Cavalcanti and, 261, 262, 264–65
language and style of, 222–23, 253, 273–75, 276, 300
works
De vulgari eloquentia, 274
Letter to Can Grande, 236, 251, 253, 273
Dante Alighieri—Commedia, 251–85
as allegory, 232–33, 251–52, 253, 255, 257, 265
basic structure of, xx, 269–70
books
Inferno, 80, 229, 232–33, 245, 254–55, 257, 260–61, 278, 279, 283
Paradiso, 80, 245, 270, 279, 284
Purgatorio, 80, 232–33, 245, 257, 278–79
descent into Hell, 18, 256, 260, 282
force of gravity in, 257, 258, 260
Gramsci on, 263–64
laterality in, 281–84
literary tradition of, 217, 251
Lukács on, 255–56
memory as theme in, 258–59, 261, 264, 266
named emotions in, 80, 255, 279–80, 283
as narrative, 66, 253–54, 271, 280, 299
personification in, 229, 260, 280–81
political theme in, 262–63, 267–69
on sins, 245, 258, 269–70, 278–79
sublimation in, 258, 262, 265, 270, 271, 279
sublime in, 284–85
temporality in, 223, 261, 263, 264, 266–67, 277, 278
theme of love in, 48, 258, 262, 283
three wild beasts in, 59, 229, 231–34
transversality in, 255, 278, 285
Virgil portrayal in, 253–54, 255, 258, 259, 265, 266, 271–72, 279, 299
virtues and vices in, 245, 269, 279–80
Darwin, Charles, and Darwinism, 62, 373–75
Dawkins, Richard, 376
Debord, Guy, 363
deconstruction, 32–33, 152, 323
Deleuze, Gilles, 35, 90, 125, 195, 196, 206, 317–18, 330
on desire, 177–78
on Hamlet, 98–99
works
Anti-Oedipus, 96
Mille plateaux, xvi
Delius, Frederick, 337
de Man, Paul, 22, 32, 33, 42, 99, 241
linguistics and allegory theory of, 26–28
democracy, 25, 113, 194, 252, 388
state and, 380
demonic possession, 237–38
Dennett, Daniel, 14–15, 361–82
Derrida, Jacques, 28, 32–33, 99, 101, 365, 371
Descartes, René, 58, 60, 62, 63, 71, 114, 362–63
Cartesian Theater model and, 363, 364, 366, 367, 368, 369, 372
desire
Deleuze-Guattari conception of, 177–78
and emotion classification, 64
in Hamlet, 83–84, 100–101, 102, 106–7, 109, 110
ideology and, xv–xvi
Lacan on, 95–96, 98, 99–100, 104, 107, 109, 265
diagnostic function of allegory, 1, 45, 190
“Diary of a Madman” (Lu Xun), 167–68, 172, 175
Diaz, Lav, 314
Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle, 222
allegory and, 331–32
Greimas square and, 331–32, 380, 388
identity and, xiv, xvii, 44, 109, 127, 132, 134, 276, 279, 310, 321, 331, 344–45, 347
incommensurability and, 190, 332
politics of, 388
See also Others and Otherness
Doctor Faustus (Mann), 144, 147–49, 289
Doderer, Heimito von
Dämonen, 315
Dos Passos, John
USA, 315
dual allegorical scheme, 4–5, 6–7, 9–10, 11, 45, 221
dualism
Cartesian, 362–63
Du Bois, W. E. B., 172
Duggan, Tony, 150
Dürer, Albrecht
Eagleton, Terry
Sweet Violence, 140
Eberhard, Wolfram, 169n
Eckermann, Johann Peter, 307
Ekman, Paul, 62
Elias, Norbert, 240
Elliott, Robert C., 178–79, 185
emotions
anger as, 66–67, 68–69, 72, 73–75, 76, 77, 94, 279
Aristotle on, 65, 66, 67–69, 72–73, 74, 76, 77, 155
classification schemes of, xviii, 52, 59–64, 72, 82
communities of, 70–71
envy and loathing as, 387
experiencing of, 55, 75–76, 77
as historical concept, xvii, 50
James-Lange theory of, 52, 55, 62–63
nomination of, 39, 50–52, 56–57, 347
personification and, 63
reification and, 39, 52, 81, 236
theories of, 57–58
See also anger; desire; named emotions
Epicureanism, 282
evolutionary theory, 337–38n, 371–72, 373–76
existentialism, 92, 136, 167, 323–24, 344
fable, 173, 218, 239, 240, 303
allegory and, 181–83
The Faerie Queene (Spenser), 217–49, 299
allegory in, 235–36, 242, 245, 247–49
characters in, 225–26, 227, 228, 240–42, 244–45
good-evil binary in, 242, 243–44, 245
linguistic texture of, 227
localities in, 224–25
passions depicted in, 241–42, 243, 247
personifications in, 229, 236–37, 240–42, 249
political element in, 217–18
temporal structure of, 245–47
Absalom, Absalom!, 186
as allegory, 289–90, 299–300, 303, 305–6, 308
Faust II, 223, 282, 287–91, 294, 295–300, 302, 303, 304
gender theme in, 290
Greeks’ depiction in, 292–93, 302–3
guilt and forgiveness in, 290, 291, 293, 294, 305, 308
language and style in, 223, 296, 300–301, 302, 307
Mephistopheles in, 288, 290–92, 294, 295, 300, 301, 304–6, 323
moral of, 291–92
nature images in, 307
play within a play in, 302
temporal overlaps in, 292–93
as tragedy, 289
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 36
figura, 2, 18, 251–52, 253, 273
Flaubert, Gustave, 151, 318, 327
La Tentation de Saint Antoine, 239, 298
Fletcher, Angus, 236–37
Fontanier, Pierre, 26
football (soccer), 191–93
Forster, E. M., 369
Foucault, Michel, 43, 64, 99, 124, 240
The Order of Things, 372
fourfold allegorical system, 4, 11, 17, 42, 45, 117, 231, 251, 308
described, 17–21
Mahler and, 151–53
modes of production and, 213–14
in postmodernity, 328, 340, 342, 347
transversality and, 231, 281, 282–83, 310
See also allegorical/mystical level of allegory; anagogic level of allegory; Greimas square; literal level of allegory; moral level of allegory
France, 202–3
Franck, César, 124
Frankfurt School, 33
Franklin, Benjamin, 3
Freire, Paolo, 174
French Revolution, 26, 114, 146, 152, 189, 268
Freud, Sigmund, xvii, 47, 85, 100, 166, 240, 347–48
on dreams as allegories, 1, 29
on the unconscious, 55, 57, 97–98, 104–5, 116
works
“A Child Is Being Beaten,” 104–5
“Creative Writers and Daydreams,” xi–xiii
The Interpretation of Dreams, 96
“Mourning and Melancholia,” 101
Frevert, Ute, 60
Fried, Michael, 31
Frye, Northrop, 43, 122, 126–27, 354
Fukuyama, Francis, 113
future-present relationship, 252–53
futurity, xviii, 168, 175, 179
Galdos, Benito Perez, 176–77, 215
Fortunata y Jacinta, 177
Galileo, 114
Gay, John, 321–22
Geertz, Clifford, 280
generic discontinuities, 183
Genette, Gérard, 230
George, Stefan, 145
Germany, 147–48, 202, 203, 296
Girard, René, 70, 85–86, 88, 89, 102, 108
globalization, 26, 71, 191, 196, 197
Gödel’s Law, 100
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 12, 52, 301, 303
classicism and, 295, 296, 299, 301
comments to Eckermann by, 236, 307
Hamlet interpretation of, 93, 102
letter to Schiller, 289
literary style of, 223, 295, 299, 305, 307
as man of the theater, 298, 299
on world literature, 25–26, 163, 293–94
works
Götz, 289
Iphigenia, 302
Werther, 289
See also Faust
Goffman, Erving
Stigma, 383
Goldmann, Lucien
The Hidden God, 6
good-evil binary, 51, 242, 243–44, 245, 300
Goody, Jack, 122
Gramsci, Antonio, 132, 174, 261, 385, 386
on Dante, 263–64
on Italian national divisions, 199
Grass, Günther
The Tin Drum, 314, 316, 320, 336
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 314, 317
See also Aristotle; Plato and Platonism
Greeks, ancient, 5, 78, 296–97, 319, 345
See also Homer
Greek tragedy, 5–6, 68, 302, 303
Hamlet and, 91–93
Gregory the Great, 63
Greimas, Algirdas Julien, 349, 361
Greimas square, xiv–xx, 16–17, 20, 72–74, 330–32, 349–59
relevance and advantages of, 72–73, 349–50
usefulness of, 72–73, 350–51, 353–54
group dynamics, 383–88
consciousness (asabiyya) and, xvi, xix, 196–97, 198, 212
See also collectivity
Guattari, Felix, 96
on desire, 177–78
transversality concept of, xviii, 42–43, 310
Guevara, Che, 21
habit, concept, 57–58
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 30, 83–117
Adorno and Horkheimer on, 114
Claudius in, 88, 95, 102–3, 105–6, 107–9, 110, 113
desire in, 83–84, 100–101, 102, 106–7, 109, 110
as expression of modernity, 83, 114, 115, 117
feudalism portrayal in, 85, 86, 89, 94
Hamlet’s madness and obsession in, 92, 107, 109–10
historical allegory in, 84–91
Kyd original version of, 87, 92
language of, 94–95
literary style of, 90, 93–95, 262
Ophelia in, 95, 100–101, 106–7, 110
procrastination theme in, 89, 101–2, 108
Schmitt on, 87–88, 89, 106, 114–15
Hammett, Dashiell, 160
Hardt, Michael, 196
Haydn, Joseph, 127
Hazlitt, William, 95
Hegel, G. W. F., 9, 30, 52, 74, 137, 214, 222
on bad infinity, 195, 314, 324
on Master-Slave relationship, 185–86
on objectification, 40
as philosopher of history, 354, 358
on reality of the appearance, 201
works
Aesthetics, 70
Phenomenology of Spirit, 70, 303
Heidegger, Martin, 25, 33, 41, 66, 94, 103, 306, 369–70
Henry, Jules
Jungle People, 86
Heraclitus, 249
Hindu nationalism, 384
historical materialism, x, 45, 212–13
historicism, 307–8
Dennett on, 372–75
allegory and, xi
Cloud Atlas depiction of, 339–40, 341
conventional framework of, 21
Faerie Queene as vision of, 235–36
Faust depiction of, 295
narrative of, xvii, 205, 311, 376
of ideas, 381
philosophy and, 113, 196, 354–55, 358
Schmitt on, 88–89
Hjelmslev, Louis, 73
Hobbes, Thomas, 52, 59, 60, 62, 80
Leviathan, 114
Hobsbawm, Eric, 205, 318–19, 337
Ho Chi Minh, 172
Hölderlin, Friedrich
Gedictete, 33
Holiday, Henry, 46
The Iliad, 5–6, 12, 66, 67, 292
Odyssey, 325
homological allegory, 16
homology, 6, 9, 16–17, 43, 46, 148, 262
Hong Kong, 208–9
Horkheimer, Max, 114
Horowitz, Donald, 386
House of Leaves (Danielewski), 222, 315
Hugo, Victor, 315
humanism, 71, 124–25, 264, 288
allegory and, xix, 9, 10, 11, 15–16
human nature, 9, 63, 124, 127, 213, 331
nature and, 10, 11, 81–82, 100
hypothetical music, 142–44, 155, 157
Muqaddimah, 196
Ibsen, Henrik, 151
idealism, 38, 62, 186, 212, 341, 362–63
cultural, 176
difference and, xiv, xvii, 44, 109, 127, 132, 134, 276, 279, 310, 321, 331, 344–45, 347
Greimas square and, 127, 351–52
of identity and non-identity, 277
personal, 28, 54, 57, 109, 153, 161, 323, 363, 364, 369–70
Ideologiekritik, xiii, xvi, 130, 147
ideology, 38, 130, 311–12, 346, 354
Adorno on empiricist, 58, 66, 136
centrality of, ix–x
culture and, x
desire and, xvii–xix
“end of,” 113
four levels of, xvi–xvii
ideologeme as unit of, xi–xii, xiv, xv, 102
individual-collective binary in, xi–xii, xiii
Marx on, xi
narrativity and, xiii–xiv, xv, 17
subjectivity and, x, xiii–xiv, 112
of the symbol, 10
The Iliad (Homer), 5–6, 12, 66, 67, 292
conceptualization and, 362
incommensurability, 30, 135, 137, 313, 326–27
as term, 332–33
individual-collective binary, xvi–xvii, 19, 310
Infinite Jest (Wallace), 317, 336
intentionality, 53
international politics, 190
Iran, 267
irony
White’s Metahistory on, 126, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358
Islam, xvi, 182, 196, 293, 316–17
Jakobson, Roman, 148
James, C. L. R., 172
The Wings of the Dove, 112, 143
James, William, xiv, 40, 61, 370
James-Lange theory, 52, 55, 62–63
Jansenism, 6
Japan, 208
Jesus Christ, 20, 21, 42, 332–33
Jia Zhangke
The World, 10
Joachim of Fiore, 79
Johnson, Uwe, 315
Jonson, Ben, 242
Joyce, James, 140, 147, 321, 369
Finnegans Wake, 23
Kant, Immanuel, 56–57, 125, 146, 337
Critique of Pure Reason, 361
on History, 2–3
on phenomenon and noumenon, 304–5
Kermode, Frank, 93–94
Kipling, Rudyard, 322
Kluge, Alexander, 139
Knight, Wilson, 262
knowledge, 12, 13, 24, 34, 88, 167, 213
Spinoza on, 79–80
Kollontai, Alexandra, 172
Kracauer, Siegfried, 272
Kuhn, Thomas, 46
on desire, 95–96, 98, 99–100, 104, 107, 109, 265
on Hamlet, 96–104, 105, 106–11
on modernity, 115–16
on Other and Otherness, 99, 100, 103–4, 239
on psychoanalysis, 28, 38–39, 47–48, 55, 56, 100
Seminars by, 100, 111, 115, 116
Sinthome theory of, 47–48
Laclau, Ernesto, 332
Laffer, Arthur, 377
Lange, Carl, 55
language
learning and teaching of, 27, 72
linguistic turn and, 27
nomination and, 38, 55, 57, 346
as primal alienation, 239
style studies on, 42
See also syntax
La Rochefoucauld, François de, 8, 64
laterality
concept of, 42–43
in Dante, 281–84
Lefebvre, Henri, 359
Le Goff, Jacques, 66
Le Guin, Ursula, 230
The Dispossessed, 218–19
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 297
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 44, 66, 284
Lewis, Wyndham, 81
libidinal investment, xvii, 83–84, 168, 198
Lin Biao, 188
linguistic reification, 98–99
linguistics, ix–x, 73, 104, 207
literal level of allegory, 2, 18, 21, 34, 42, 84, 152, 167, 328
as allegoresis, 26
Marxian understanding of, 212, 213
in postmodernity, 326, 340, 343
literature, xii, xiii, 14, 28, 243, 342
medieval, 217
national, 23
Third World, 159–86
world, 25–26, 162–63, 187, 194, 223, 293–94
Lodge, David
Nice Work, 371
Loos, Adolf
Ornament and Crime, 22
Lovecraft, H. P., 242
Luhmann, Niklas, 345
Lukács, Georg, 90, 195, 270, 319
on Dante, 255–56
on misunderstanding, 29
Theory of the Novel, 254, 255–56
Ah Q allegories of, 171–72
“Diary of a Madman,” 167–68, 172, 175
“Medicine,” 169–70
Lyotard, Jean-François, xvii, xviii, 27, 83, 113, 114
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 8, 64, 132, 196, 262
Mack, Maynard, 162
Mahler, Gustav
First Symphony of, 142, 145, 155
musical style of, 134, 143, 157
Sixth Symphony, 132–33, 135, 141, 151–56
symphonic form of, 127–28, 137–38
temporality in music of, 135–37, 139
Mahon, Alfred Thayer, 114
Malebranche, Nicolas, 61
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 36, 274, 347
Livre, 23
Malraux, André
La condition humaine, 7
Mann, Thomas, 327
Doctor Faustus, 144, 147–49, 289
Reflections of an Unpolitical Man, 147
Mannheim, Karl, 354
Manzoni, Alessandro, 281
Martí, José, 180
on activity and productivity, 40, 41
historical viewpoint of, 205, 212–13, 374
on ideology, xi
as philosopher of history, 354, 355, 358
on reification, 346
works
Critique of Political Economy, 210–11
Marxism, xvi, 20, 25, 276, 288
on base and superstructure, x, 210–12
on class consciousness, 387
on economic causality, 386–87
historical framework of, 22, 37
on modes of production, 163–64, 213–14
psychoanalysis and, 47
Master-Slave relationship, 185–86
materialism, 62, 102, 139, 185, 211, 273, 365, 371
Cartesian dualism and, 362–63
mechanical and vulgar, 213, 341
matter and antimatter, 344
maximalism. See minimalism-maximalism binary
Mayans, 352
McCarthy, Tom
Remainder, 341–44
McGann, Jerome, 365
“Medicine” (Lu Xun), 169–70
melancholy, 76, 101, 120, 140, 241
as concept, 6–7
Melville, Herman, 321
as Dante theme, 258–59, 261, 264, 266
Metahistory (White), 351–52, 354–58
allegory as different from, 148, 331
Greimas square and, 352, 354, 355, 356–57, 358
simile vs., 6
metaphysics, 10, 16, 45, 53, 63, 125, 213
Metatheater (Abel), 91–92, 114
metonymy, 351–52, 354, 356, 357
Meyer, Leonard, 124
Michel, Louise, 172
Mickiewicz, Adam, 298
Midnight’s Children (Rushdie), 316–17, 336
Mille plateaux (Guattari and Deleuze), xviii
Comus, 294–95
Mimesis (Auerbach), 273–75
minimalism-maximalism binary, 316, 317, 335, 341
antithetical nature of, 249, 326, 344–45
styles and techniques in, 313–15
mirror stage, 38–39, 86, 102, 104, 109, 111
misunderstanding term, 29–30
Mitchell, David, 336–41
Mitchner, James, 336
Mitscherlich, Alexander, 116
modal colorations, 285
modernism and modernity, 58, 135, 256, 284, 295, 327, 345
Hamlet as expression of, 83, 114, 115, 117
Lacan theory of, 115–16
literary, 28, 167, 207, 272, 328–29
temporality and, 139, 318, 330, 359, 365
modes of production, xi, 20, 21, 268, 269
Asiatic, 164–65
Monahan, Seth, 122, 132–33, 142, 145, 150–51, 155
The Money Order (Ousmane), 181–82, 184
Montaigne, Michel de, 156, 307
moral level of allegory, xvi, 9, 213, 234, 308
as level of meaning, 18, 19–20
Mahler and, 151–52
in postmodernity, 310, 328, 338–39, 340, 343
More, Thomas
Utopia, 225
Mosca, Count, 57
Most, Glenn, 67
Mouffe, Chantal, 332
music
allegory and, 119–21, 123, 130
atonal, 133–34
beginnings and endings in, 125–26
breakthroughs in, 144–47
categories of modality in, 141–42
discontinuities in, 123–24
hypothetical, 142–44, 155, 157
irony in, 143
narrative and, 122–23, 126, 128–29, 134–35, 152, 329–30
orchestration in, 138–39
philosophy and, 125
psychology and, 124–25
sonata form in, 123, 129–30, 139, 145, 147, 152
symphonic form in, 123–24, 127–28, 129–30, 137–38
temporality in, 125, 126, 135–37, 139–40, 152
See also Mahler, Gustav
Musil, Robert
Mann ohne Eigenschaften, 150
named emotions, 39, 51, 72, 76, 91
affect and, 44, 59, 66, 157, 200, 279, 280, 283, 310, 320, 325, 347
allegory’s organization of, 52
binary oppositions and, 64–65
in Dante, 80, 255, 279–80, 283
See also emotions
naming. See nomination
narrative
Adorno on, 122–23
allegory and, 21, 119, 127, 207, 209–10, 309
closure in, 173, 175, 206, 231
constructional powers of, 265–66
Dante’s Commedia as, 66, 253–54, 271, 280, 299
futurity and, 175
generic transformation of, 184–85
“grand” category of, 113–14
Greimas square and, 353–54
of history, xvii, 205, 311, 376
ideology and, xiii–xiv, xv, 17
Jungianism and, 127
Mahler’s Sixth Symphony as, 153–54, 155
medieval, 217
music and, 122–23, 126, 128–29, 134–35, 152, 329–30
postmodernity and, 309, 318, 335–36
primal fantasy and, xii, 104–5
proto-narrative, 209–10
Sartre denunciation of, 206–7
textuality in, 221–22
thick, 276
national allegory, xix, 159–86, 187–215
asabiyya and, xvi, xix, 196–97, 198, 212
under globalization, 344–45
personification and, 194–95
in third-world culture, 185
western literature and, 176–77
national identity and character, 79, 176, 201, 207–9
nationalism, 25, 159, 182, 195, 297–98
national personification, 194, 201–5
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, 122
natural selection, 168, 373–75
Needham, Rodney, 383–84
negation, 65, 136, 214, 301, 325, 344, 374
definition as, xiv–xx
in fourfold system of allegory, 16–17
Greimas square and, 73–74, 331–33, 350, 352, 358
negative-positive binary, 65–66
Negri, Antonio, 196
Neruda, Pablo, 172
Neto, Agostinho, 172
New Critical theory, 242, 262, 263
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 181
Nielsen, Carl
Fourth Symphony (The Inextinguishable), 330
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 37, 69, 91, 168, 301, 371, 374
as philosopher of history, 354, 355, 358
on subject and object, xii, 53, 346, 370
nominalism, 58–59, 136, 139, 310, 313, 325
of emotions, 39, 50–52, 56–57, 347
identity and, 57
nonsynchronous synchronicity, 190
nothingness, 156, 298, 324, 343
Nussbaum, Martha, 64
Oates, Joyce Carol, 316
object. See subject-object binary
obsessional neurosis, 98, 103, 105, 109–10
one-to-one allegory, 4–6, 9, 14, 86–87, 281
orchestration, 138–39
Origin of the German Traverspiel, 30
Orwell, George
1984, 377
Others and Otherness, 71, 175, 385
as evil, 242–43
Lacanian view of, 99, 100, 103–4, 239
positing of, 37–38
Ousmane. See Sembene, Ousmane
pain-pleasure opposition, 65, 72, 78, 241
passions, 12–13, 61, 67, 221, 245
Aristotle’s theory of, 67–69
Spenser depiction of, 241–42, 243, 247
See also emotions; named emotions
pastiche, 320–21, 335–36, 338, 341
Pater, Walter, 140
Paxson, James J.
Poetics of Personification, 230–31
Peck, Raoul, 334
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 352
Pepper, Stephen, 354
Pericles, 69
periodic sentence, 274, 275, 276–77
personal identity, 54, 57, 109, 153, 323, 364
centered subject and, 28, 161, 176, 369, 379
consciousness and, 363, 369–70
personification, 12, 51, 141, 230, 231, 236
allegory and, 31–32, 39, 48, 140, 151, 153, 157, 194, 231
emotion and, 63
Paxson on, 230–31
reification and, 198–99, 249, 346–47
in Spenser, 229, 236–37, 240–42, 249
phenomena, 61, 125, 228, 273–74, 278
philosophy, 14, 15, 32, 64, 92, 341–42, 359
of history, 113, 196, 354–55, 358
music and, 125
postmodern, 335–36
photography, 62
picture thinking, 270, 271, 284
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 220–21, 222, 234
Pinel, Philippe, 27
The Plague (Camus,), 7, 8, 9, 329
Plato and Platonism, 11, 33, 48, 265
poetry, 3, 188, 293, 303, 312, 341
versification in, 222–24
point-to-point allegories, 10, 148, 260
See also dual allegorical scheme
political unconscious, xvii, 87, 88–89, 202
politics of difference, 388
Pope, Alexander, 301
Popper, Leo, 29
postmodernity, 34, 35, 83, 369, 378, 380
as concept and term, 113, 318, 359
narrative and, 309, 318, 335–36
as pastiche, 335–36
poststructuralism, 176, 221, 369, 378
present-future relationship, 252–53
primal fantasy, xii, 104–5, 108n
process allegories, 60
Propp, Vladimir, 129, 132, 207
proto-narrative, 209–10
Proust, Marcel, 57, 138, 147, 247, 275, 318
on French national identity, 199–200n
pastiches of, 338
representation of self by, 53–54, 56
Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens, 13, 230
Lacanian, 28, 38–39, 47–48, 55, 56, 100
psychology, 13, 78, 124–25, 130, 240
ancient Greek, 67–68
Jungianism and, 127
music and, 124–25
Stoic, 77
public-private split, 165
Puig, Manuel
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, 181
Pynchon, Thomas, 316
Rabelais, François, 43
Racine, Jean, 6
neo-racism and, 385–86
Ranke, Leopold von, 354–55, 357
Ray, Nicholas, 178
reading play, 222, 296, 297–98
realism, 22, 229, 253, 295, 297, 326, 338
allegory’s relation to, 2, 170, 346–47
Auerbach on, 251, 253, 273, 275
figural, 272
nineteenth-century, 22, 176, 181
as slippery concept, 253
redundance, 262
Reich, Wilhelm, 174
reification, 310, 311, 320, 326, 365
as allegorical figure, 346
linguistic, 98–99
personification and, 198–99, 249, 346–47
in Spencer, 237–39, 241, 243, 249
relativism, 24–25, 42, 71, 329, 335–36
religion, 62, 64, 98, 234, 339, 352
See also Christianity; theology
Remainder (McCarthy), 341–44
renunciation (ethical value), 291
representability
allegorical systems and, 36–37, 233, 362
subjectivity and, 361
ressentiment, 168
rhetoric, field of, 4, 119, 230, 273
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 28, 42, 277
Ritchie, Guy, 339
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 221
Robespierre, Maximilien, 21, 88
Roche, Thomas P., 248
Romains, Jules
Hommes de bonne volonté, 315
Le Roman de la rose, 220–21, 222, 234, 271, 309
Romanticism, 2, 22, 24, 25, 355
Rosenwein, Barbara, 70
Rossellini, Roberto
La Prise de pouvoir de Louis XIV, 85
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 70, 194, 197
Rushdie, Salman, 320
Midnight’s Children, 316–17, 336
sacred texts, 3, 23, 25, 42, 84, 328
Said, Edward, 175
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 312
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 27, 36, 40, 92, 172, 283, 327, 341
on collective cohesion, 198
on literary aesthetics, 29, 243
Nausea, 206
on subjectivity and consciousness, 14, 53, 365
Schiller, Friedrich, 90, 91, 301
on Hamlet, 87–88, 89, 106, 114–15
works
Nomos der Erde, 114
Schoenberg, Arnold, 145
Klangfarbenmelodie idea of, 44, 329
on Western tonality, 131
Scholem, Gershom, 33
Schubert, Franz, 129
science
thematization of, 9, 11, 12–13
tripartite allegorical system and, 11, 12, 17
as worldview, 24–25
science fiction, 8, 27, 191, 219, 246, 339, 341, 345
Scott, Walter, 296–97
self-consciousness, xiii, 53–54, 71, 126, 284
of representational language, 284
as term, 28
Sembene, Ousmane, 181
The Last of the Empire, 180
sentence structure, 273–75
See also syntax
Sévigné, Madame de, 338
Shakespeare, William
character portrayals by, 95
literary style of, 31, 90, 93–95, 110, 262
See also Hamlet
Shaviro, Steven, 81
Shaw, George Bernard, 86, 102, 108
Sibelius, Jean
Seventh Symphony, 329
Silberer, Herbert, 41
simile, 5–6
sin
Dante portrayal of, 245, 258, 269–70, 278–79
theorization of, 64
Sisyphus, 7–8
situational consciousness, 185
The Sleepwalkers (Clark), 201–5
social allegory, 185
sonata form, 123, 129–30, 139, 145, 147, 152
sovereignty, 86, 88, 108, 130, 267, 269–70
Soviet Union, 208
Soylent Green, 339
Spain, 177
spatial anomalies, 229, 231, 234
special effects, 297–98
Spengler, Oswald, 43
Spenser, Edmund
culture and politics combined in, 217–18, 265
The Letter to Raleigh, 227, 236
life of, 249
style of, 242
See also The Faerie Queene
Spitzer, Leo, 277
Stalin, Joseph, and Stalinism, 189, 377, 380
state, 379–80
Stein, Gertrude, 117
Stein, Peter, 287–88, 299–300, 323
Steinberg, Michael, 129
Stoics and Stoicism, 11, 65, 71, 72, 74–75, 76, 77–78
storytelling, 206, 254, 297, 334, 371, 374
Strauss, Richard, 119
Strindberg, August, 76
structuralism, 6, 43, 51, 55, 96, 330, 359
See also poststructuralism
Sturm und Drang, 289, 295, 296, 300, 301–2
subjectivity, x–xi, 56, 153, 247
centered subject and, 15, 28, 161, 176, 369, 379
consciousness and, 53
construction of, 19, 53–54, 64–65, 72, 222, 234–35, 238, 310
ideology and, x, xiii–xiv, 112
subject-object binary, x, xii, xiii, 15, 80–81, 364, 365
sublimation, 4, 41, 107, 139, 221, 283, 305
in Dante, 258, 262, 265, 270, 271, 279
group conflict and, 387–88
as term, 283
in Dante, 284–85
verticality and, 270
substance, as category, 52–53, 346
substantialism, 38, 44, 141, 153
Sullivan, Louis, 313–14
surface reading, 42
Swift, Jonathan, 301
symbol and symbolism, 12–13, 39, 170, 281, 313, 387
allegory and, 2–3, 9–10, 23–24, 25, 36–37, 170, 331
in bad allegory, 270–71
complex role of, 23–25
symphonic form, 123–24, 127–28, 129–30, 137–38
symptomatology, 334–35
synecdoche, 126, 352, 354, 355, 357
allegory and, 273
periodic sentences and, 274, 275, 276–77
taboo function, 72
Tambling, Jeremy, 278, 279, 283
Tarr, Bela, 314
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 129
temporality, 31, 65, 105, 223, 274, 367–68
in Dante, 223, 261, 263, 264, 266–67, 277, 278
modernism and, 139, 318, 330, 359, 365
in music, 125, 126, 135–37, 139–40, 152
thematization, 9, 98, 99, 100, 245
theology, 24, 33, 71–72, 269, 282
allegory and, 44–45
as picture thinking, 284
See also religion
thick narrative, 276
Third World
allegorization in, 165, 214–15
modes of production in, 164–65, 189
third-world literature, 159–86
Ousmane Sembene, 179–85
world literature difference with, 187
Thomas à Kempis, 19
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (DeLanda), xviii
The Threepenny Opera (Brecht), 306, 321–25
Thurber, James, 225
The Tin Drum (Grass), 314, 316, 320, 336
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 354–55, 356
atonality and, 133–34
totality, 194–95
traditional allegory, 152, 170, 232, 276, 309–10
allegoresis and, 140–41
personifications and, 48, 346–47
Greek, 5–6, 68, 91–93, 302, 303
Shakespearean, 31, 86, 87, 101–2, 105, 114, 157
Trauerspiel and, 31, 87, 90, 91, 101, 110, 111–12n, 114, 321
transversality, 340–41
Greimas square and, 331–32, 350
Guattari concept of, xviii, 42–43, 310
Trauerspiel
human history and, 91
Schmitt-Benjamin debate on, 87, 101, 114
tragedy and, 31, 87, 90, 101, 110, 111–12n, 114, 321
The Trial (Kafka), 327–28
tripartite allegorical scheme, 19, 45, 119
consciousness and, 15–16
of Homer, 11–13
tropes, 42, 93–94, 126, 148, 354
tropological study of, ix–x
Trotsky, Leon, and Trotskyism, 21, 235, 265
Truffaut, François
L’Enfant sauvage, 27
Twain, Mark, 40
Huckleberry Finn, 339
two-level allegories. See dual allegorical scheme
Ulysses (Joyce), 124, 207, 298
unconscious
Freud on, 55, 57, 97–98, 104–5, 116
political, xvii, 87, 88–89, 202
uneven development, 190
universality, 48, 71, 77, 296, 332
Utopian dimension and impulse, 179, 214, 305, 386
Valéry, Paul, 304
verse and versification, 222–24, 276
Vico, Giambattista, 44
Vierzehnheiligen, 30
Dante portrayal of, 253–54, 255, 258, 259, 265, 266, 271–72, 279, 299
Von Neumann, John, 369
Wagner, Richard, 147, 151, 297
on Beethoven, 119–21
Die Meistersinger, 121–22
Parsifal, 217
Wallace, David Foster, 316, 317
Wallerstein, Immanuel, 177, 268
Webern, Anton, 133
Weill, Kurt, 321
Wells, H. G.
Time Machine, 347
Welsh, Alexander, 101
Whitehead, Alfred North, 36, 80, 81
Whitman, Walt, 223
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee), 76
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 293, 301
wish fulfillment, xiii–xiv, xvi, 147, 290
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 56
Wolfe, Thomas, 315
Wordsworth, William, 2, 3, 22, 170, 229, 231
world literature, 162–63, 194, 223
and Third-World Literature, 187
Xala (Ousmane), 179–80, 182–85
Xenien, 300–301
Yang, Edward, 334