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Allegories of Reading
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Pages: 324
Authors: Paul De Man
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Prous
Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: David Dawson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-28 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Allegorical readings of literary or religious texts always begin as counterreadings, starting with denial or negation, challenging the literal sense: "You have
Literary Intention, Literary Interpretations, and Readers
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: John Maynard
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-17 - Publisher: Broadview Press

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This accessible, personal, and provocative study returns to the major subject in literary discussion before and during the relatively recent flourishing of lite
Allegories of History
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Timothy Bahti
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press

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Bahti shows how narrative or interpretive language produces historical meaning--and how this meaning is reached at the expense not only of the historical "facts
Allegories of Writing
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Bruce Clarke
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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This is a theoretical study of human metamorphosis in Western literature.