{"id":13981,"date":"2013-02-12T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T19:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=13981"},"modified":"2020-12-08T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:11:33","slug":"machosky-publishes-book-on-allegory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/12\/machosky-publishes-book-on-allegory\/","title":{"rendered":"Machosky publishes book on allegory"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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Brenda Machosky<\/strong>, an associate professor of English and humanities at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>—West Oʻahu<\/span>, recently published the book Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature<\/em> with Fordham University Press.<\/p>\n

Structures of Appearing<\/em> addresses the limitations of a metaphysical, aesthetic approach to literature, an approach that effectively excludes allegory. By using a phenomenological approach, Machosky proposes a new understanding of allegory that is not about finding meaning but about experiencing language.<\/p>\n

She recasts the historical relationship between art and philosophy, critiques aesthetics as an ideology that has long subjugated art to philosophical criteria of judgment, and revitalizes allegory as a fundamental and powerful structure supporting all language. The book includes readings of Plato, Prudentius, Dante, Spenser, Hegel, Goethe and Kafka.<\/p>\n

Machosky is also the coordinator for the UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> Center of Teaching and Learning Excellence.<\/p>\n

After receiving her doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she held a three-year postdoctoral position at Stanford University and a one-year visiting assistant professorship at Cornell University. Machosky’s research focuses on allegory with previous publications including an edited volume Thinking Allegory Otherwise<\/em> (Stanford University Press 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> Associate Professor Brenda Machosky recently published Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-13981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13981"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132059,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions\/132059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}