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allegory
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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allegory, a figurative narrative or description, conveying a veiled moral meaning; an extended metaphor. As C. S.
Lewis argues in
The Allegory of Love, the medieval mind tended to think naturally in allegorical terms. Allegorical works of great vitality continued to be produced, ranging from Spenser's
Faerie Queene and Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress, both of which use personifications of abstract qualities, to Dryden's political allegory
Absalom and Achitophel, which conceals real identities.
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Allegory and materiality: medieval foundations of the modern debate.
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Debate today over the distinction of allegory in relation to other modes of literary...poets such as Coleridge, who dismissed allegory as merely a "mechanic form," in preference...prevails in most quarters, the idea of allegory as an oppositional form is with us still...
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Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton and Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Kenneth Borris, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature...Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. xi...the relationship between history and allegory from strikingly antithetical perspectives...
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Allegory in The Rambler.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Tub and Tom Jones. Allegory rather is a rhetorical...argument. By analogy, the allegories that Johnson includes...let alone enjoy, the allegory of Sin and Death. Indeed, "broken" allegories may prompt readers to...The conviction that allegory succeeds best when restr
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Allegory and Violence.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Allegory and Violence. By GORDON TESKEY. Ithaca...its own, with the result that literary allegory became closely associated with the allegorical...does not offer to rewrite the history of allegory as a genre. Nor is Allegory and Violence...
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Allegory and Violence.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...general history of creative allegory, still held by many scholars...Ages, since so much of its allegory, like the Vulgate Quest of...antiquity produced creative allegories, he must explain away the...because they did not define allegory as personification fiction...
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Reinventing Allegory.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...54.95. In Reinventing Allegory, Theresa M. Kelley discusses...she gathers under the word allegory. The discussion concludes...Kelley sees as 'reinventing' allegory in circumstances where the...transcendental assumptions of older allegories are abandoned. Kelley finds...
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Continuing forms: allegory and translatio imperii in Caspar von Lohenstein and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...different). On the other hand, allegory existed in art theory, in...baroque. In this context, "allegory" referred to the pictorial...namely for a meaning. These allegories do not say something other...sight. For this reason, allegory has belonged to both sides...
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Roger Travis. Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...1999. Pp. xii + 243. $27.95. In Allegory and the Tragic Chorus, Roger Travis...s main argument is that there is an allegory, an extended metaphor that pervades...s fantasy-contents" (10). This allegory connects the play to both Oedipus and...
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The presence of allegory: the case of Philip Roth's American pastoral.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Narrative; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...short, analyze allegory as narrative. The congruence of allegory and narrative is...cases of narrative allegories--allegorical...see in narrative allegories. Indeed, even...critic who looks at allegory more as a rhetorical...
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A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...is a "speculative" allegory. I realize nevertheless...all unfolded literary allegories, political or otherwise...Shakespeare incorporated an allegory in A Midsummer Night...3) Veiled political allegories in form the comedies...incorporated a political allegory in A Midsummer Night...
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allegory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...abstractions. The allegory is closely related...have been used for allegories. The medieval morality...S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love (1936); P. de Man, Allegories of Reading (1979...The Language of Allegory (1979)
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Allegory
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Allegory A narrative expressing abstract ideas...is often little distinction between an allegory, a parable , a simile, or a metaphor...relationship between God and his people. Allegory is also to be found in Talmudic and kabbalistic...
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ALLEGORY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
ALLEGORY. A story, such as George ORWELL'S Animal Farm (1945), that can be...Orwell's farm is a nation state and his pigs are Marxist revolutionaries. Allegory may occur in any genre, does not constitute a literary form, and is in...
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Alsino y el Condor
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...exile theme of direct criticism and allegories of the political events in Chile...Somoza regime in Nicaragua, is an allegory of the Nicaraguan people rising...dreams of freedom. The very obvious allegories here are the illusion of liberty...
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Bunyan, John (1628–1688)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Bunyan was inspired to write his famous allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, begun about...deemed it insufficiently serious. The allegory was both a guide to the Christian life...tradition and his own experience. The allegory denounced persecution and provided a...
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