The Fiction of Truth : Structures of Meaning in Narrative and Dramatic Allegory /

The Fiction of Truth offers a rigorous reexamination of allegory. Rejecting the traditional notion that allegory says thing and means another, Carolynn Van Dyke proposes a new definition of the genre, derived both from contemporary critical theory and from the practice of medieval and Renaissance al...

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Author / Creator: Van Dyke, Carolynn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Allegory as Other
  • Part I. THE PARADIGM
  • Part II. PERSONIFICATIONS AND PERSONAE
  • Part III. INTEGUMENTS
  • Epilogue: Allegory's Aftermath
  • Works Cited
  • Index