The Oxford Handbook of Allegory
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289435-9 (ISBN)
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Allegory has been variously defined as a literary genre, a mode of interpretation, and a symbolic dimension to all language. Although 'allegory' historically escapes easy definition, it can be broadly defined as a mode of communicating that says one thing and means another. Allegory arguably functions by means of a distinction between the surface level of communication and a further level or levels of significance beyond the surface.
The term 'allegory' has historically been used both of a mode of writing or representation and of a mode of reading and interpretation. Allegorical writing is found throughout history in a wide variety of literary forms and traditions. This Handbook reflects the diversity of literature in which allegory occurs, including genres such as medieval drama, Romantic poetry, and the postcolonial novel. It addresses both key texts typically thought of as allegories (such as Piers Plowman, The Pilgrim's Progress, and Animal Farm), and allegorical motifs and tendencies present in works not usually labelled as allegories, such as the novels of Dickens and the drama of Beckett. The Handbook also explores forms of allegorical representation beyond written texts, including visual art and film. In addition, the volume traces the history of allegorical reading and interpretation (often known as allegoresis), which has had immense cultural significance, especially in the case of sacred texts such as the Bible, but also, for instance, in the edifying readings of Greek myths and legends.
This Handbook tackles a topic that is by its nature global, transhistorical, and interdisciplinary, and its coverage reflects that breadth of appeal, starting with Plato's myth of the cave and finishing with the 2015 Disney/Pixar film Inside Out. It draws upon, and makes contributions to, fields including literary studies, film studies, art history, mathematics, classics, theology, and cognitive science. It features both traditional topics of discussion in relation to allegory (such as rhetoric, personification, and typology) and innovative new approaches (such as ecocritical and phenomenological readings), offering a kaleidoscope of perspectives to illuminate the ongoing resonance of allegory's 'other-speaking' to the present.
David Parry is Tutorial Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. His research interests cluster around the intersection of rhetoric, religion, and intellectual history in early modern English literature. His first book The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2022. He has published in journals including SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and Milton Quarterly, and in edited essay collections from publishers including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Palgrave Macmillan. He is also the reviews editor for Bunyan Studies.
David Parry: Introduction
1: Peter T. Struck: Plato as Allegorist and Anti-Allegorist
2: Philip Hardie: Allegorical Reading and Writing in the Epic Traditions of Classical Antiquity
3: Craig L. Blomberg: Allegory in Biblical Parable and Prophecy
4: Hauna Ondrey: Allegory and Typology in Early Christian Refigurations of the Hebrew Bible
5: Ronald L. Martinez: Dante: The Artifice of Allegory
6: Katharine Breen: Medieval Allegorical Poetry and Prose
7: Elisabeth Dutton: Allegory in Medieval and Early Tudor Drama
8: Jon Whitman: 'Allegory' and 'Literality' in Flux: From Medieval to Early Modern Interpretation
9: Richard A. McCabe: Spenser and Allegory
10: Judith H. Anderson: Shakespeare and Allegory
11: Vladimir Brljak: Allegory, 'Allegory', and Allegory: Ends and Beginnings, c.1500-1700
12: David Parry: The Paradoxes of Puritan Allegory in John Milton and John Bunyan
13: Jane K. Brown: Allegory in Continental Romanticism
14: Nicholas Halmi: Allegory in British Romanticism
15: Peter Otto: William Blake and 'Allegory addressd to the Intellectual powers': Swedenborgian correspondence, Romantic symbolism, and the metamorphoses of allegory
16: Jo Carruthers: Victorian Allegory
17: Deborah L. Madsen: Allegorical Typology, Typological Allegory in American Literature
18: Stephen Sicari: High Modernism and the 'Allegory of Theologians': Joyce, Eliot, Stevens, and Woolf
19: Malcolm Guite: Allegory Amongst the Inklings
20: Mark Taylor-Batty and Juliette Taylor-Batty: Allegory and the Absurd in Post-1950 Drama
21: Maria Cichosz: Allegory's Transformations in Postmodern Literature and Art
22: Kenneth Paradis: Allegory in Contemporary 'Christian Fiction'
23: James Ogude: Post-Colonial Allegory: The African and Caribbean Example
24: David Rosen and Aaron Santesso: Allegory and the Reader
25: Rita Copeland: Allegory and Rhetoric
26: Jason Crawford: Allegory and Personification
27: Vera J. Camden and Valentino Zullo: Allegory and Gender
28: Brenda Machosky: Allegory and Appearance: Phenomenological Approaches to Allegory
29: David Hawkes: Allegory and Alienation: Marxist Approaches
30: Jeremy Tambling: Allegory and the City: Vanity and the Phantasmagoria
31: Gabriella Blasi: Allegory and the Anthropocene: Ecocritical Perspectives
32: Onno Oerlemans: Animals in Allegory
33: Lisa Rosenthal: Visual Allegory and Materiality in Early Modern Europe
34: Mark Kozek: Flatland: A Mathematical Allegory in Many Dimensions
35: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.: Allegory and the Embodied Mind: The Cognitive Science of Allegory
36: Craig A. Hamilton: Political Allegory: Symbol and Surveillance
37: Jason J. Gulya and Naya Tsentourou: Animation and Fantasy Film in the Allegorical Tradition
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Handbooks |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 171 x 246 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-289435-8 / 0192894358 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-289435-9 / 9780192894359 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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