NDLI: Symbol and allegory “In the wake of Romanticism”

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Polizoes, Elias
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Divided into three parts, this article investigates how Johan Huizinga and Walter Benjamin draw upon romantic formulations regarding the difference between symbol and allegory in their respective books on the Middle Ages and the Baroque. The first part of the article offers a close reading of the “Symbolism in its Decline” chapter of Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Autumn of the Middle Ages) (1919) to show how Huizinga sides with Goethe in his preference for symbol over allegory. The second part of the article examines the Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (The Origin of German Tragic Drama) (1928) to decode Walter Benjamin’s account of how “in the wake of Romanticism” a notion of the symbol derived from Classicism was deployed to underwrite a conservative critical practice. The third part pits Benjamin’s allegorical order against Huizinga’s symbolical one and shows that the latter’s humanism provides a less penetrating criticism of modernity as an ongoing process.
Starting Page	145
Ending Page	156
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03244652
Journal	Neohelicon
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15882810
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-06-07
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Comparative Literature
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Law

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Symbol and allegory “In the wake of Romanticism”