Yearbook of English Studies, January 1st, 1999
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 century. The tradition underwent many modifications and adapted itself to a wide variety of stylistic and cultural changes. Most important of these changes was Christianity, which brought with it an allegorical method of its own, with the result that literary allegory became closely associated with the allegor...
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