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Gordon Teskey - Allegory and Violence - 9780801429958 - V9780801429958
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Allegory and Violence

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Description for Allegory and Violence Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 14 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.

The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in the European tradition, Gordon Teskey provides both a literary history of allegory and a theoretical account of the genre which confronts fundamental questions about the violence inherent in cultural forms.

Approaching allegory as the site of intense ideological struggle, Teskey argues that the desire to raise temporal experience to ever higher levels of abstraction cannot be realized fully but rather creates a ... Read more

Concluding with a discussion of the Mutabilitie Cantos, Teskey describes Spenser's metaphysical allegory, which is deconstructed by its own invocation of genealogical struggle, as a prophetic vision and a form of warning.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801429958
SKU
V9780801429958
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Gordon Teskey
Gordon Teskey is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is co-editor, with George M. Logan, of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Allegory and Violence
"Teskey mingles much learnedness with some of the most powerful analysis to which allegory has ever been subjected. It is a rich brew, but entirely rewarding. . . . Teskey has written a remarkable work."—Angus Fletcher, Modern Language Quarterly "Gordon Teskey's truly remarkable book . . . inhabits as much as it unfolds the work of allegory. One crucial thing ... Read more

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