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9780691644547, titled "Archetype and Allegory in the "Dream of the Red Chamber"" | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $97.50
9780023193972, titled "American Life in Modern Times" | Macmillan Coll Div, January 1, 2003, cover price $17.00 | also contains American Life in Modern Times
9780691062938 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1976, cover price $39.00
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9780691617404 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $38.95
Product Description: The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics, introducing new strategies for reading American poetry while embedding its formal innovations within the history of intellectual thought...read more
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9780231164306 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 2015, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning.
Product Description: Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickensâ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickensâ novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickensâ writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living...read more
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9781138808270, titled "Dickens' Novels As Poetry: Allegory and Literature of the City" | Routledge, November 24, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickensâ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickensâ novels as a unique form of poetry.
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9781441104939 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 11, 2013, cover price $110.00
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9781628925272 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014), cover price $39.95
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9780691151809 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 16, 2012, cover price $38.95
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9780823242849, titled "Structures of Appearing: Allegory & the Work of Literature" | Fordham Univ Pr, November 2, 2012, cover price $60.00
Product Description: By mapping the contour of Thornton Wilderâs major plays and novels, this book offers a fresh reading of his deceptively unfashionable art of allegorical narrative, and aims to reaffirm Malcolm Cowleyâs perspicacious judgment: «(Wilder is) one of the toughest and most complicated minds in contemporary America...read more
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9783034310819 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 12, 2012, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: By mapping the contour of Thornton Wilderâs major plays and novels, this book offers a fresh reading of his deceptively unfashionable art of allegorical narrative, and aims to reaffirm Malcolm Cowleyâs perspicacious judgment: «(Wilder is) one of the toughest and most complicated minds in contemporary America.
Product Description: In The Vitality of Allegory Gary Johnson argues that the rumors of allegoryâs death have been greatly exaggerated. Surveying the broad landscape of modern and contemporary narrative fiction, including works from Europe, Africa, and North America, Johnson demonstrates that, although wholly allegorical narratives have become relatively rare, allegory itself remains a vibrant presence in the ongoing life of the novel, a presence that can manifest itself in a variety of ways...read more
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9780814211823 | Ohio State Univ Pr, March 28, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In The Vitality of Allegory Gary Johnson argues that the rumors of allegoryâs death have been greatly exaggerated.
9780814292815 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, January 31, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In The Vitality of Allegory Gary Johnson argues that the rumors of allegoryâs death have been greatly exaggerated.
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9780786440306 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 29, 2011, cover price $40.00
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9780859917964 | Ds Brewer, December 1, 2003, cover price $90.00
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9780023193972 | Macmillan Coll Div, January 1, 2003, cover price $17.00 | also contains Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber
9780023193972 | Macmillan Coll Div, January 1, 2003, cover price $17.00 | also contains Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber
Product Description: In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintilian's definition of allegory as extended metaphor, Travis argues that in Oedipus at Colonus the chorus of old men forms an allegorical relationship with the aged Oedipus, which depends in turn upon the chorus's own likeness to the Athenian audience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780847696086 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $107.00 | About this edition: In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus.
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9780847696093, titled "Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles': Oedipus at Colonus" | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $44.00
Product Description: Completing Professor Westra's earlier work on Book 1 (published by Brill as "Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 20"), this critical edition presents a late medieval commentary on Book II of Martianus Capella's influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts...read more
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9789004109681 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 1997, cover price $188.00 | About this edition: Completing Professor Westra's earlier work on Book 1 (published by Brill as "Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 20"), this critical edition presents a late medieval commentary on Book II of Martianus Capella's influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts.
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9789004101708 | Brill Academic Pub, September 1, 1994, cover price $206.00
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9780691102337 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1987), cover price $18.95
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9780520097162 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $45.00
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9780888440808 | Pontifical Inst of Medieval, November 1, 1986, cover price $30.00
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9780313204579 | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1978, cover price $64.00
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