Allusion And Allegory

Author : Boris Kayachev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110447767

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Allusion and Allegory by Boris Kayachev Pdf

The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship. The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message. Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.

Author : Allan H. Pasco
Publisher : Rookwood Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1886365210

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Allusion by Allan H. Pasco Pdf

Originally published in 1994, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet.

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Pdf

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.

Author : Lucia Marino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Allegory
ISBN : UOM:39015042869084

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The Decameron Cornice by Lucia Marino Pdf

Author : Edwin Greenlaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136910616

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Studies in Spenser's Historical Allegory by Edwin Greenlaw Pdf

First Published in 1969. This volume consists of four papers of the late Professor Greenlaw, the first two not before published. Chapter I was read before the History of Ideas Club at The Johns Hopkins University, December 15, 1927. Chapter II represents material used in the English Conference and Seminary at Hopkins and read as the presidential address before The Johns Hopkins Philological Association in October, 1929. Chapter III is a reprint of Professor Greenlaw’s article, Spenser and the Earl of Leicester,’’ from Publications of the Modern Language Association 25 (1910) and Chapter IV is a reprint of his Spenser and British Imperialism” from Modern Philology 9 (1912).

Author : Christopher A. Reynolds
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 067401037X

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Motives for Allusion by Christopher A. Reynolds Pdf

Definitions -- Transformations -- Assimilative allusions -- Contrastive allusions -- Texting -- Inspiration -- Naming -- Allusive traditions and audiences -- Motives for allusion.

Author : Anne E. Fernald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192539632

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The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf by Anne E. Fernald Pdf

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six sections focus on Woolf's life, her texts, her experiments, her life as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf's life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. The section on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf's practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf's experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf's writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while 'Professions of Writing', invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the TLS. The 'Contexts' section moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final section on afterlives demonstrates the many ways Woolf's reputation continues to grow, across the globe, and across media, in ideas and in artistic expression. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.

Author : Rushdie Salman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141342399

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Rushdie Salman Pdf

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and a fantastic adventure begins.

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110444889

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Handbook of English Renaissance Literature by Ingo Berensmeyer Pdf

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

Author : Judith H. Anderson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823228492

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Reading the Allegorical Intertext by Judith H. Anderson Pdf

Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic free play. Relatedly, the intertext is also a convenient fiction that enables examination of individual agency and sociocultural determinism. Anderson’s intertext is allegorical because Spenser’s Faerie Queene is pivotal to her study and because allegory, understood as continued or moving metaphor, encapsulates, even as it magnifies, the process of signification. Her title signals the variousness of an intertext extending from Chaucer through Shakespeare to Milton and the breadth of allegory itself. Literary allegory, in Anderson’s view, is at once a mimetic form and a psychic one—a process thinking that combines mind with matter, emblem with narrative, abstraction with history. Anderson’s first section focuses on relations between Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, including the role of the narrator, the nature of the textual source, the dynamics of influence, and the bearing of allegorical narrative on lyric vision. The second centers on agency and cultural influence in a variety of Spenserian and medieval texts. Allegorical form, a recurrent concern throughout, becomes the pressing issue of section three. This section treats plays and poems of Shakespeare and Milton and includes two intertextually relevant essays on Spenser. How Paradise Lost or Shakespeare’s plays participate in allegorical form is controversial. Spenser’s experiments with allegory revise its form, and this intervention is largely what Shakespeare and Milton find in his poetry and develop. Anderson’s book, the result of decades of teaching and writing about allegory, especially Spenserian allegory, will reorient thinking about fundamental critical issues and the landmark texts in which they play themselves out.

Author : David Petersen
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781468952568

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Writing Naturally by David Petersen Pdf

A uniquely compelling, refreshingly practical and unimpeachably informed how-to guide for aspiring and published nature writers.

Author : Janice Hewlett Koelb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230601888

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The Poetics of Description by Janice Hewlett Koelb Pdf

This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.

Author : John Lyon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521244930

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The Theatre of Valle-Inclan by John Lyon Pdf

This is a study of the Spanish dramatist RamØn del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). John Lyon shows that Valle has links with two avant-garde movements: the turn of the century Symbolism associated with Maeterlinck and Yeats, and the anti-tragic values which surfaced in the 1920s and culminated in Absurdism.

Author : Ana Elena Puga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135899240

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Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater by Ana Elena Puga Pdf

In this timely study, Puga compares contemporary Southern Cone playwrights and their aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship; in the process, she traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory.

Author : Matthew M. Gorey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780197518748

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Atomism in the Aeneid by Matthew M. Gorey Pdf

"This book examines the role of philosophical metaphor and allegory in the Aeneid, focusing on tendentious allusions to Lucretian atomism. It argues that Virgil, drawing upon a popular strain of anti-atomist and anti-Epicurean arguments in Greek philosophy, deploys atomic imagery as a symbol of cosmic and political disorder. The first chapter of this study investigates the development of metaphors and analogies in philosophical texts ranging from Aristotle to Cicero that equate atomism with cosmological caprice and instability. The following three chapters track how Virgil applies this interpretation of Epicurean physics to the Aeneid, in which chaotic atomic imagery is associated with various challenges to the poem's dominant narrative of divine order and Roman power. For Aeneas, the specter of atomic disorder arises at moments of distress and hesitation, while the association of various non-Trojan characters with atomism characterizes them as agents of violent disorder needing to be contained or vanquished. The final chapter summarizes findings, showing how Virgilian allusion to Lucretian physics often conflates poetic, political, and cosmological narratives, blurring the boundaries between their respective modes of discourse and revealing a general preference for hierarchical, teleological models of order"--