Rereading Allegory: A Narrative Approach to Genre

Author / Editor
Madsen, Deborah L.

Title
Rereading Allegory: A Narrative Approach to Genre

Published
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Physical Description
177 pp.

Description
Defines allegory by structural features of plot rather than by content, surveying theory and history of the genre from the classics to contemporary criticism. Briefly considers BD and PF as allegories.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Book of the Duchess.