Allegory
- Author / Editor
- Tambling, Jeremy.
Allegory
- Published
- London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
- Physical Description
- viii, 192 pp.
- Series
- New Critical Idiom.
- Description
- Examines allegory as a mode in English and American literature (and art), surveying its roots in classical and medieval traditions, exploring its relations with other literary devices and forms (irony, personification, apostrophe, prosopopoeia, etc.), and examining several attempts to theorize the mode (Maureen Quilligan, Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, etc.). Considers literary uses of allegory from Saint Paul to postmodernists, including discussion (pp. 52-55) of Chaucer's Pardoner as an adaptation of Jean de Meun's personification False Seeming.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations