The Fiction of Truth: Structures of Meaning in Narrative and Dramatic AllegoryCornell University Press, 1985 - 315 pages |
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... closely to the treatment of allegory as Other among modes of discourse . In saying one thing and meaning another , allegory " destroys the normal expectation we have about language , that our words ' mean what they say . ' When we ...
... closely to the treatment of allegory as Other among modes of discourse . In saying one thing and meaning another , allegory " destroys the normal expectation we have about language , that our words ' mean what they say . ' When we ...
Page 210
... closely related issues have been disputed with surprising fervor , even bitterness , even though the disputants often claim to agree with one another . Accused of describing the Divine Comedy in terms inap- plicable to any work of ...
... closely related issues have been disputed with surprising fervor , even bitterness , even though the disputants often claim to agree with one another . Accused of describing the Divine Comedy in terms inap- plicable to any work of ...
Page 249
... closely analogous to our attempts to perceive visual phenomena by categoriz- ing them within a range of familiar schemata . " Thus the events and objects of Spenser's poem seem sensual and concrete because we apprehend them as we ...
... closely analogous to our attempts to perceive visual phenomena by categoriz- ing them within a range of familiar schemata . " Thus the events and objects of Spenser's poem seem sensual and concrete because we apprehend them as we ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Allegory as Other | 15 |
The Psychomachia and the Nature of Pure Allegory | 25 |
Copyright | |
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