Reinventing Allegory
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- Author: Theresa M. Kelley
- Date Published: December 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521157773
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Reinventing Allegory asks how and why allegory has survived as a literary mode from the late Renaissance to the postmodern present. Three chapters on Romanticism, including one on the painter J.M.W. Turner, present this era as the pivotal moment in allegory's modern survival, while other chapters describe larger historical and philosophical contexts, from classical rhetoric to recent theory and metafiction. Using a series of key historical moments to define the special character of modern allegory, this study assesses allegory's role in comtemporary literary culture.
Read more- Comprehensive study of one of the most enduring of literary modes, offering theories for its survival
- Explores allegory in terms of theory and literary practice, in the context of modern literary and cultural theories
Awards
- Winner of the 1998 South Central Modern Language Association Prize
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"... a learned and ambitious study. It is a powerful achievement. Kelley's reinvention of allegory lies in her fresh and vital sense of the capacity for allegory to become a formidable agent of cultural critique and subversion on one hand, and of repression on the other. On every page, Kelley's meticulous subtle close readings engage in, rather than simply demonstrate, the demanding dialetical work of allegorical figuration. Of this allegorist of capability, one wants to ask: of what is Theresa Kelley not capable? This imposing, accomplished and valuable book gives no hints. For decades to come -- and for readers well beyond the field of Romanticism--it will be a touchstone for all critical discussion of allegory, modernity, and much else besides." Esther Schor for Romantic Circles Website
See more reviews"Reinventing Allegory is an ambitious, wide-ranging book...Kelley's book is illuminating about the rich difficulties of allegory..." Andrew Elfenbein, Spenser Newsletter
"...a powerful achievement..." Esther Schor, Romantic Circles Reviews
"Theresa Kelley's study of allegory in modernity is firmly grounded in the Romantic period, even as it ventures back to the late sixteenth century and marches forward to the later twentieth." Walter Reed, European Romantic Review
"Kelley traces embattled allegory into the postmodern climate in her deeply researched book, creating a new benchmark for her subject that will endure beyond many changes in critical fortune." Douglas B. Wilson, Albion
"One of the joys of reading Reinventing Allegory is Kelley's lucid and witty prose style." South Central Review
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- Date Published: December 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521157773
- length: 364 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Allegory, phantasia and Spenser
3. 'Material phantasms' and 'allegorical fancies'
4. Allegorical persons
5. Romantic ambivalences I
6. Romantic ambivalences II
7. J. M. W. Turner's 'Allegoric shapes'
8. Allegory and Victorian realism
9. Conclusion.
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