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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2011
      March 2010
      ISBN:
      9781139002851
      9780521862295
      9780521680820
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521862295
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 324 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 324 Pages
      • Collection:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
      Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.

    Reviews

    'This collection of essays has two uncommon virtues. First is the nature of the project itself … unprecedented in its chronological and thematic sweep. Secondly, the editors have managed to make a collection that reads as a whole. One can spend time with the essays in this book, ruminating and reflecting on the powerful role that allegory has played in the history of western literature, art, and thought.'

    Marc Mastrangelo Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

    'This is indeed a strong and well-edited collection, with individual essays that are useful to the teacher, as well as a larger narrative that, by tracing the development of the different, interrelated meanings of allegory, clarifies a complex and ever evolving literary-intellectual tradition.'

    Source: Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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