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Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory: Interpreting Metaphorical Language from Plato to the Present
Simon Brittan
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Description for Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory: Interpreting Metaphorical Language from Plato to the Present
Paperback. Aiming to help readers overcome the difficulties of approaching poetry, this study provides a historical overview of theories of interpretation as they apply to symbol and allegory. Beginning with the Greeks, Brittan moves from classical theory through to Romantics and Modern ideas. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Dealing with poetry is frequently problematic for the university teacher and student: although undergraduates are usually responsive to discussions about drama and prose, poetry often silences the classroom. Unless a poem provides references easily applicable to their own lives, many students feel they can't relate to the piece and are stymied. In particular, allegorical poetry produces tensions among the desire to find the meanings of the poet's symbolism, the fear of voicing a ""wrong"" interpretation, and a natural objection to perceived restrictions on interpretive freedom. Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory enses that dilemma by providing a historical overview of theories of ... Read more
Dealing with poetry is frequently problematic for the university teacher and student: although undergraduates are usually responsive to discussions about drama and prose, poetry often silences the classroom. Unless a poem provides references easily applicable to their own lives, many students feel they can't relate to the piece and are stymied. In particular, allegorical poetry produces tensions among the desire to find the meanings of the poet's symbolism, the fear of voicing a ""wrong"" interpretation, and a natural objection to perceived restrictions on interpretive freedom. Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory enses that dilemma by providing a historical overview of theories of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813921570
SKU
V9780813921570
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About Simon Brittan
Simon Brittan is an independent scholar who divides his time between England and Michigan. He has taught at the University of East Anglia and in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and written for Renaissance Forum, the Times Literary Supplement, and Gravesiana.
Reviews for Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory: Interpreting Metaphorical Language from Plato to the Present
Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory offers an elegantly written and bracingly wide-ranging introduction to a crucial strand of the history of literary interpretation. Brittan has written a book that we need.-Adam Parkes, University of Georgia