Yearbook of English Studies, January 1st, 2000
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 allegory. The discussion concludes with the postmodern novel, which Kelley sees as 'reinventing' allegory in circumstances where the theocentric and transcendental assumptions of older allegories are abandoned. Kelley finds in postmodern literature a deconstructed yet still referential tendency in figu...
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