{"id":2203,"date":"2018-04-03T04:31:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=2203"},"modified":"2018-04-03T04:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:31:25","slug":"chinese-university-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/chinese-university-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese University Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lecture and Seminar at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of English, April 11, 2014<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/eng\/events_news\/\">Events &amp; Seminars<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/eng\/events_news\/news\">News<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Events &amp; Seminars<\/div>\n<div><strong>\u201cPorphyry\u2019s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature\u201d by Prof. William Franke<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Date<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div>11 Apr 2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Time<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div>11:30 am<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Speaker<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div>Prof. William Franke, Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme, The University of Macau<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Topic<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div>Porphyry\u2019s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Venue<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div>E-Zone, 3\/F Fung King Hey Building<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Porphyry\u2019s in the Cave of the Nymphs inaugurates a style of philosophico-allegorical interpretation of literary texts that flourished in antiquity and that finds analogues in criticism down to the present. It is distinguished by its use of literary interpretation to think through speculative problems of philosophy and theology. Although it became suspect in terms of Enlightenment philological principles prescribing interpretation of the text. In its own terms, this kind of criticism reveals the originally philosophical motives and purpose of literary criticism and restores to literature the vocation of disclosing a properly poetic truth higher than that of fact or history. The history of this type of speculative criticism stemming from Porphyry\ue51b reading of Homer is then traced forward through Latin allegorical readings of epic revolving around Virgil. This itinerary highlights the perennial and inevitable tensions between philological and philosophical approaches to interpreting literature as a revelation of truth, even of theological truth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/eng\/events_news\/events_seminars_detail\/75\">Porphyry\u2019s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture and Seminar at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of English, April 11, 2014 Events &amp; Seminars News Events &amp; Seminars \u201cPorphyry\u2019s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature\u201d by Prof. William Franke Date: 11 Apr 2014 Time: 11:30 am Speaker: Prof. William Franke, Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme, The University of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2203\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}