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Allegory without ideas / Angus J.S. Fletcher -- Memories and allegories of the death penalty : back to the medieval future? / Jody Enders -- The mask of Copernicus and the mark of the compass : Bruno, Galileo, and the ontology of the page / Daniel Selcer -- The function of alleg…
"Thinking Allegory Otherwise is a unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways." "Not limited to an examination of literary texts and works of art, the essays focus on a wide range of topics, including architectu…
A unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways. The essays are not limited to an examination of literary texts and works of art, and in fact focus on a wide range of topics that includes architecture, philosophy,…
Allegory and metaphor are linguistic 'tropes' : they are essentially ornamental. These essays discuss this from a variety of perspectives, examining the origin and meaning of the term 'metaphor' and comparing theory with practice.
According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. Both allegory and metaphor are linguistic "tropes": their purpose is essentially ornamental. The distance posited here…