Allegory

Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century. In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling: presents a concise history of allegory, providing numerous examples from Medieval forms to the present day considers the relationship between allegory and symbolism analyses the use of allegory in modernist debate and deconstruction, looking at critics such as Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man provides a full glossary of technical terms and suggestions for further reading. Allegory offers an accessible, clear introduction to the history and use of this complex literary device. It is the ideal tool for all those seeking a greater understanding of texts that make use of allegory and of the significance of allegorical thinking to literature.

ISBN 0415340063   Weight (grammes) 226 ISBN13 9780415340069 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Series title The New Critical Idiom Imprint Routledge   Height (mm) 198 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 129 Publication date 19 Aug 2009   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 809.915   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9780415340052 Pages 200

		Introduction		1
		Allegory and meaning		8
		Allegory and abstraction		12
		Literal and allegorical readings		14
1		Classical and medieval allegory		19
		Allegoresis		19
		Beginning allegory		23
		Dante: fourfold allegory		25
		The veil of allegory		28
		Allegory and 'Figura'		32
		Piers Plowman and medieval interest in allegory		36
2		Medieval and Renaissance personification		40
		Bronzino's Allegory		40
		Defining personification		42
		Allegories, virtues and vices		47
		Allegory and realism		50
		Allegory and Chaucer		52
		Spenser		55
3		From allegory to symbolism		62
		Emblems and allegory		62
		Emblems and signs		64
		Bunyan		69
		Blake		73
		Coleridge and German Romanticism		77
4		Allegory in the age of realism		85
		Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson		87
		Identity and monstrosity		92
		Courbet's 'real allegory'		96
		Urban Allegory: Dickens and Marx		100
		Baudelaire		105
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