Allegory and Violence. By GORDON TESKEY. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1996. xiv+195 pp. [pound]27.50. In his Preface to Chaucer D. W. Robertson outlined a continuous tradition of allegorical theory and practice extending from the sixth century bc to the eighteenth...

Reinventing Allegory. By Theresa M. Kelley. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 22). Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xv +345 pp. [pound]37.50;$54.95. In Reinventing Allegory, Theresa M. Kelley discusses a wide array of works which she gathers under the word...

MOSCOW, Nov 3 (Reuters) - In a film that hit cinema screens this week, patriotic Russians despairing at the lack of a strong leader rise up, throw out their Western overlords and make Russia a proud country once again. It could be a documentary...

The movie is set, very realistically, in a fascist outpost in the mountains in 1944. Franco's troops are trying to root out the guerillas. The heroine of the movie is Ofelia, a girl of 9 or 10 whose widowed mother has, horrifyingly, remarried a fascist...