The Ends of AllegoryUniversity of Delaware Press, 1998 - 190 pagine This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Examples from centuries of response to English Renaissance narrative poetry show not what poems mean but how they may be read and what cultural conditions encourage allegorical or nonallegorical readings. The study also encompasses interpretations of classical verse, biblical parable, Jacobean masque, modern lyric, and television advertising to explore how texts move in and out of the category of allegory. |
Sommario
| 23 | |
Defining Allegory As Rhetoric Literary Text and Reading | 48 |
The Untidiness of Allegory A Sick Rose and Chocolate Shrimps | 66 |
Allegory to the Rescue Saving Venus and Adonis from Themselves | 86 |
Radical Allegory Parables and Politics | 111 |
Allegory and the Hearts Desire Remolding the Hippopotamus | 133 |
Notes | 159 |
| 177 | |
| 187 | |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Ends of Allegory |
| Autore | Sayre N. Greenfield |
| Edizione | illustrata |
| Editore | University of Delaware Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0874136709, 9780874136708 |
| Lunghezza | 190 pagine |
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