The ends of allegory / Sayre N. Greenfield.
This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. The interpretive careers of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and of the same figures in Spenser's Faerie Queene provide central examples t...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Allegory
- Why Bother?
- 1. When Allegories Fall Apart: Piers Plowman, The Faerie Queene, and The Pilgrim's Progress
- 2. Defining Allegory: As Rhetoric, Literary Text, and Reading
- 3. The Untidiness of Allegory: A Sick Rose and Chocolate Shrimps
- 4. Allegory to the Rescue: Saving Venus and Adonis from Themselves
- 5. Radical Allegory: Parables and Politics
- 6. Allegory and the Heart's Desire: Remolding the Hippopotamus.