... of Allegory,” claims that Latin American literary studies has been haunted by Fredric Jameson’s (in)famous claim that “all third world texts are […] national allegories,” accompanied, more recently, by a critical countertradition in Latin Americanism that rejected Jameson’s argument without pursuing...

...-building aspirations in a plural context evocative of Algeria’s own diversity. Kateb’s text reveals a Mediterranean ethos at the core of Algeria’s founding narrative, performing what writer Nabile Farès later dubbed the “re-allegorization of national myth” in a Mediterranean mode. Allegory Arabness...

... and medieval practices of allegorical composition and reading. The panorama shows how the allegory’s rich variance promotes established midrashic and exegetical habits of looking at Lot’s wife in Jewish and Christian biblical tradition -- a pictorial digest of condemnatory judgments. At the same time...

... contradiction between capitalist economy and traditional aristocratic values in nineteenth-century Scandinavia, Ibsen in his subsequent Peer Gynt instead chooses to represent this conflict itself through the combination of two distinct literary modes: that of allegory, which the chapter analyses...

... and philosophy and the boundary-crossing force of allegory and other literary figures in a broader argument for the power of figural language to energize ethical and political commitments. Auschwitz The Drowned and the Saved Levi gray zone Levi Primo Nyiszli Miklós SK Sonderkommando soccer game and soccer...

...This chapter develops the discussion of race, slavery, and animality in relation to Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus Tales. While Harris's stories are often read as allegories of slavery, such interpretations risk what Steve Baker calls the “denial of the animal,” which reads animality...

...This introduction sketches a theory of how war novels formulate a complex response to the realism that lends itself to national allegory by adopting four widely used motifs, which capture the broader implications of individual experiences of torture, atrocity, spiritual unmooring, and environmental...

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...This chapter looks at how writing and theory are superimposed in Rosseau's novel, Julie or the New Heloise. Drawing upon two of Paul de Man's readings of the novel in his Allegories of Reading, the chapter embarks on a discussion regarding passion, which is generally considered...

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...Chapter 1 turns to Spenser’s use of allegory to represent the ambiguous fanatical transformation of person into divine instrument. If allegory in The Faerie Queene works by analysis, parsing complex motives and essences into their discrete parts, fanaticism proposes an undifferentiated...

... and critiques the breakthrough contributions of poet and language theorist Dante Alighieri, his Divine Comedy (Commedia), a classic world literature masterpiece, and his intelligent use of the “allegory of theologians” and hermeneutics to the early characterization of the novel reader...

..., the topical verisimilitude of Wells's science fiction lies in its knowledgeable depiction and intermingling of vivisection and devolution. The fantasy of forcing humanization upon animals through surgical alterations pitches the ensuing failure of those experiments as an allegory of human devolution...

...The anomalies that the author has described in this section offer a good reason to cling to the helium-filled balloon of allegory that carries viewers safely above the ground plane of unruly detail. At least two hypotheses may be advanced against the tendency toward allegorical evasion. One...

...In order to examine allegory as a unique and peculiar phenomenon, the author subjects it to a process of phenomenological reduction, a philosophical method adapted from the work of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. A phenomenology of allegory seeks to uncover what has been buried under centuries...

...This chapter revisits the supposed antagonism between symbol and allegory that begins in the seventeenth century and becomes an accepted ideology in the wake of Romanticism and Idealism. Allegory threatens ideal concepts like the symbol by exposing the unity of divine and worldly as an arbitrary...

...Allegory is not an extended metaphor. This conclusion defies a long-standing (though not unanimous) definition. Bringing together ideas from Roman Jakobson, Barbara Johnson, Maureen Quilligan and others, the author argues that metonymy forces an attentiveness to the materiality of language...

...This book addresses the limitations of a metaphysical, aesthetic approach to literature, an approach that effectively excludes allegory. By using a phenomenological approach, the author proposes a new understanding of allegory that is not about finding meaning but about experiencing language...

... Ideology and his concept of the materiality of the letter. This allows for an examination of the way in which Coetzee's text resists an accrual of spectacular power that was offered by the exposure of state torture in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. allegory apartheid...

... of a globalized world literature without a history or identity. Instead of fixing literature and history within a single story––a single world or world literature––or set of binaries––local/global or individual/collective––Bei Dao’s allegories emphasize the historical flux and contested readings that gave birth...