The English Hero, 1660-1800Robert Folkenflik This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Examples from centuries of response to English Renaissance narrative poetry show not what poems mean but how they may be read and what cultural conditions encourage allegorical or nonallegorical readings. The study also encompasses interpretations of classical verse, biblical parable, Jacobean masque, modern lyric, and television advertising to explore how texts move in and out of the category of allegory. |
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... appeared in Tatler , No. 238 , 14-17 October 1710. The revised fifth edition of the Tale was published late in the ... appearing in a poem is to the special case of Thersites , who is also the subject of an extended allusion in the ...
... appeared in Tatler , No. 238 , 14-17 October 1710. The revised fifth edition of the Tale was published late in the ... appearing in a poem is to the special case of Thersites , who is also the subject of an extended allusion in the ...
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... appeared , when op- posed to the Virtues of Master Blifil , his companion : A Youth of so different a Cast from little Jones , that not only the Family , but all the Neighbourhood , resounded his Praises ... Tom Jones , . . . bad as he ...
... appeared , when op- posed to the Virtues of Master Blifil , his companion : A Youth of so different a Cast from little Jones , that not only the Family , but all the Neighbourhood , resounded his Praises ... Tom Jones , . . . bad as he ...
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... appearance ! You are sure of all the women . . . on your side . What brave fellows ! What fine gentlemen ! There goes a ... appeared now , but for company - sake ; mincing , simpering .. But every eye dwells upon Miss ! See , see , the ...
... appearance ! You are sure of all the women . . . on your side . What brave fellows ! What fine gentlemen ! There goes a ... appeared now , but for company - sake ; mincing , simpering .. But every eye dwells upon Miss ! See , see , the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
An Age without a Hero? | 25 |
Drydens Alexander | 46 |
Copyright | |
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