Reinventing Allegory

ISBN-13: 9780521432078 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 364 str.

Theresa M. Kelley; Marilyn Butler; James Chandler

Opis

Reinventing Allegory asks how and why allegory has survived as a literary mode from the late Renaissance to the postmodern present. Three chapters on Romanticism, including one on the painter J.M.W. Turner, present this era as the pivotal moment in allegory's modern survival, while other chapters describe larger historical and philosophical contexts, from classical rhetoric to recent theory and metafiction. Using a series of key historical moments to define the special character of modern allegory, this study assesses allegory's role in comtemporary literary culture.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Readers concerned with this still crucial element of literary and artistic practice will find a great deal within this book which is stimulating, original and worthy of further investigation.' Romanticism

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Allegory, phantasia and Spenser; 3. 'Material phantasms' and 'allegorical fancies'; 4. Allegorical persons; 5. Romantic ambivalences I; 6. Romantic ambivalences II; 7. J. M. W. Turner's 'Allegoric shapes'; 8. Allegory and Victorian realism; 9. Conclusion.