The Ends of Allegory

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University 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.

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When Allegories Fall Apart Piers Plowman The Faerie Queene and The Pilgrims Progress
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
Bibliography
177
Index
187
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Pagina 59 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Pagina 90 - The younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeares Venus, & Adonis: but his Lucrece, & his tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, haue it in them, to please the wiser sort.
Pagina 66 - The Sick Rose O rose, thou art sick; The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
Pagina 139 - Flesh and blood is weak and frail, Susceptible to nervous shock; While the True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock. The hippo's feeble steps may err In compassing material ends, While the True Church need never stir To gather in its dividends.
Pagina 92 - Shakespeare has here represented the animal impulse itself so as to preclude all sympathy with it, by dissipating the reader's notice among the thousand outward images, and now beautiful, now fanciful circumstances, which form its dresses and its scenery, or by diverting our attention from the main subject by those frequent witty or profound reflections which the poet's ever active mind has deduced from, or connected with, the imagery and the incidents.
Pagina 23 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...

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