Allegory and violence:

The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in the European tradition, Gordon Teske...

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Main Author: Teskey, Gordon 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 1996
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in the European tradition, Gordon Teskey provides both a literary history of allegory and a theoretical account of the genre which confronts fundamental questions about the violence inherent in cultural forms.
Physical Description:XIV, 195 S. Ill.
ISBN:0801429951

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