Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory"This book explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of literary allegory. The first chapter estimates the biases that obscure the subject, then proposes a different view. The second chapter surveys the changing concept of allegory from a perspective that leads into our own times. In the third chapter the focus is on the typical constructs of allegorical narration, and in the fourth chapter, on the development of three essential verbal modes in allegorical fiction. And, because the best allegory embodies an ideal which is integral to its methods, the final chapter discusses the role of such ideals in allegory and in related types of fiction."--Preface. |
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action Ahab's allegorist allusion anagoge appears Archimago Aristotle artist authority becomes belief Bunyan's character Christian analogy Coleridge concept of allegory consciousness Coriolanus created creation creative critical cultural Dante Dante's divine doctrine Don Quixote dramatic Duessa esthetic ethical experience expression F. O. Matthiessen Faerie Queene fiction figure function Genesis Gregor's Gulliver's Hawthorne Hawthorne's hero's heroic Hester Prynne human idea ideal identified imagination implications interpretation irony Ishmael Kafka Kenneth Burke legory literal literary form literature meaning medieval Melville Melville's method mind Moby Dick moral mystery myth narrative nature Northrop Frye novel object pastoral personification philosophical poem poet poetic principle psychological Queequeg quest Rappaccini's Rappaccini's Daughter rational reader realistic reality Red Cross relationship religious role Romantic satire Scarlet Letter seems sense social Spenser story symbolic types talisman things tion traditional trope truth typical virtues WALLACE STEVENS whale whole word worship writer