Allegory : : The Theory of a Symbolic Mode / / Angus Fletcher.
Anyone who has ever said one thing and meant another has spoken in the mode of allegory. The allegorical expression of ideas pervades literature, art, music, religion, politics, business, and advertising. But how does allegory really work and how should we understand it? For more than forty years, A...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 23 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- A Personal Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Daemonic Agent
- 2 The Cosmic Image
- 3 Symbolic Action: Progress and Battle
- 4 Allegorical Causation: Magic and Ritual Forms
- 5 Thematic Effects: Ambivalence, the Sublime, and the Picturesque
- 6 Psychoanalytic Analogues: Obsession and Compulsion
- 7 Value and Intention: The Limits of Allegory
- Afterword
- Afterword to the 2012 Editio
- The Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index