The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... allegory, he makes no more of this pregnant suggestion. What could have motivated Spenser to invoke these alchemical associations, if indeed he does? One answer lies in reading certain episodes of The Faerie Queene as esoteric ...
... allegory, he makes no more of this pregnant suggestion. What could have motivated Spenser to invoke these alchemical associations, if indeed he does? One answer lies in reading certain episodes of The Faerie Queene as esoteric ...
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... allegory (Gr allēgoria other speaking) An allegory is a fiction told in such a way as to indicate, by 'aptly suggestive resemblance' (OED), a clear structure of nonfictional ideas. It is presented, therefore, as being secondary to a ...
... allegory (Gr allēgoria other speaking) An allegory is a fiction told in such a way as to indicate, by 'aptly suggestive resemblance' (OED), a clear structure of nonfictional ideas. It is presented, therefore, as being secondary to a ...
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... Allegory, or darke conceit' recapitulates traditional ideas of allegory that are themselves in need of critical analysis, it should be taken not as an objective description of the poem before us but rather as an indication of how the ...
... Allegory, or darke conceit' recapitulates traditional ideas of allegory that are themselves in need of critical analysis, it should be taken not as an objective description of the poem before us but rather as an indication of how the ...
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... allegories such as Swift's Tale of a Tub, Arbuthnot's History of John Bull, or Addison's allegory of true and false wit (Spectator 63), what gives pleasure is the opportunity of playing with the terms of the comparison, and not the ...
... allegories such as Swift's Tale of a Tub, Arbuthnot's History of John Bull, or Addison's allegory of true and false wit (Spectator 63), what gives pleasure is the opportunity of playing with the terms of the comparison, and not the ...
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... allegory as convention When an allegorical trope appears in a nonallegorical work, its purpose is to clarify an argument (as in the fable of the belly in Livy 2.32.9) or to intensify our perception of something described. In the Iliad ...
... allegory as convention When an allegorical trope appears in a nonallegorical work, its purpose is to clarify an argument (as in the fable of the belly in Livy 2.32.9) or to intensify our perception of something described. In the Iliad ...
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