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The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre

By Maureen Quilligan

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781501724480
DOI
10.7591/9781501724480
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18046571 bytes)
Pages
312\311
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 19:15:56

Description

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.

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