The Language of Allegory : : Defining the Genre / / Maureen Quilligan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Quilligan, Maureen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword: Defining the Genre --; 1. The Text --; 2. The Pretext --; 3. The Context --; 4. The Reader --; Afterword: Origins and Ends --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501724480; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501724480
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Maureen Quilligan.

This lively and innovative work treats a body of literature not previously regarded as a unified genre. Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that are traditionally called allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan formulates a vocabulary for talking about the distinctive generic elements they share. The texts she considers range from the twelfth-century De planctu naturae to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and include such works as Le Roman de la Rose, Langland's Piers Plowman, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Melville's Confidence Man, and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Whether or not readers agree with this book, they will enjoy and profit from it.