Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory. Edwin Honig

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