期刊名称：American, British and Canadian Studies Journal
印刷版ISSN：1841-964X
出版年度：2015
卷号：25
期号：1
页码：37-59
DOI：10.1515/abcsj-2015-0007
语种：English
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：The now-longstanding academic revival of allegory, as well as its import as a perennial buzzword of contemporary art criticism, owes much to a group of essays published in the journal October in the early 1980s. Authors Craig Owens and Benjamin Buchloh, in turn, drew a bloodline to the ideas of allegory that occupied Walter Benjamin throughout his literary career. However, whereas Benjamin saw allegory as the expression of a radical, indeed messianic, view of political possibility, the October writers found in allegory a counter-paradigm against Modernism that would resist the latter's totalizing tendencies by pursing its own deconstructive fate of “lack of transcendence.” In the following essay, I trace the source of this discrepancy to the crucial theological underpinnings of Benjamin's concept of allegory, without which the allegorical forms - appropriation and montage - produce not miraculous flashes of unmediated recognition but the permanent impossibility of communication.
关键词：Allegory ; Walter Benjamin ; postmodernism ; theology ; messianism ; dialectics ; deconstruction ; constellation ; ruin ; Trauerspiel
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