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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quilligan, Maureen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary form.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Allegory.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 291-299.

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ISBN:

9781501724480

1501724487

OCLC:

1132229649