
Allegory
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Allegory puts forward a basic theory of allegory as a symbolic mode, shows how it expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices. Revealing the immense richness of the allegorical tradition, the book demonstrates how allegory works in literature and art, as well as everyday speech, sales pitches, and religious and political appeals.
In his new afterword, Fletcher documents the rise of a disturbing new type of allegory--allegory without ideas.
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Decication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A Personal Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Daemonic Agent
- 2. The Cosmic Image
- 3. S ymbolic Action: Progress and Battle
- 4. Allegorical Causation: Magic and Ritual Forms
- 5. Thematic Effects: Ambivalence, the Sublime, and the Picturesque
- 6. Psychoanalytic Analogues: Obsession and Compulsion
- 7. V alue and Intention: The Limits of Allegory
- Afterword
- Afterword to the 2012 Edition
- Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index
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