Allegory

by Tambling, Jeremy

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Title Statements

Full title :Allegory / Jeremy Tambling.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 192 pages ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415340052, 0415340055, 9780415340069, 0415340063, 9780203462126, 0203462122
oclc:ocn277195961
LC Classification:PN56.A5
Dewey Decimal:809/.915

Introduction -- Allegory and meaning -- Allegory and abstraction -- Literal and allegorical readings -- 1. Classical and medieval allegory -- Allegoresis -- Beginning allegory -- Dante: fourfold allegory -- The veil of allegory -- Allegory and 'Figura' -- Piers Plowman and medieval interest in allegory -- 2. Medieval and Renaissance personification -- Bronzino's Allegory -- Defining personification -- Allegories, virtues and vices -- Allegory and realism -- Allegory and Chaucer -- Spenser -- 3. From allegory to symbolism -- Emblems and allegory -- Emblems and signs -- Bunyan -- Blake -- Coleridge and German Romanticism -- 4. Allegory in the age of realism -- Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson -- Identity and monstrosity -- Courbet's 'real allegory' -- Urban Allegory: Dickens and Marx -- Baudelaire -- 5. Walter Benjamin: allegory versus symbolism -- Baroque allegory -- Allegory and the skull -- Baroque allegory and Milton -- 6. Allegory, irony, deconstruction -- From Benjamin to Paul de Man -- 'The Rhetoric of Temporality' -- Allegories of Reading -- Prosopopoeia -- Apostrophe -- 7. Modern allegory -- Allegory in postcolonialism -- Postmodern allegories -- For and against allegory -- A…