Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode

by Angus Fletcher (Author), Angus Fletcher (Author), Harold Bloom (Foreword)

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Illustrated
2012
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Revealing the immense richness of the allegorical tradition, this book demonstrates how allegory works in literature and art, as well as everyday speech, sales pitches, and religious and political appeals. It shows how allegor expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices.

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Revealing the immense richness of the allegorical tradition, this book demonstrates how allegory works in literature and art, as well as everyday speech, sales pitches, and religious and political appeals. It shows how allegor expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 472
Edition: With a New afterword by the author
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05 Aug 2012
ISBN 10: 0691151806
ISBN 13: 9780691151809