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sehr leichte Randl�ren am oberen Teil des Buchr�ckens des Schutzumschlags, sonst sauber und keinerlei Anmerkungen oder Anstreichungen / very light edgewear at the top of the spine of the dust jacket, otherwise clean and no annotations or markings of any kind. - Literary allegory has deep roots in early reading and interpretation of Scripture and classical epic and myth. In this substantial study Mindele Treip presents an overview of the history and theory of allegory in and allegorical exegesis upon Scripture, poetry and especially the epic from antiquity to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, with close focus on the Renaissance and on the triangular literary relationship of Tasso, Spenser and Milton. Exploring the different ways in which the term allegory has been understood, Treip finds significant continuities-within-differences in a wide range of critical writings, including texts of postclassical, patristic and rabbinical writers, medieval writers, notably Dante, Renaissance theorists such as Coluccio Salutati, Bacon, Sidney, John Harington and rhetoricians and mythographers, and the neoclassical critics of Italy, England and France, including Le Bossu. In particular, she traces the evolving theories on allegory and the epic of Torquato Tasso through a wide spectrum of his major discourses, shorter tracts and letters, giving full translations. Treip argues that Milton wrote, as in part did Spenser, within the definitive framework of the mixed historical-allegorical epic erected by Tasso, and she shows Spenser's and Milton's epics as significantly shaped by Tasso's formulations, as well as by his allegorical structures and images in the Gerusalemme liberata. In the last part of her study Treip addresses the complex problematics of reading Paradise Lost as both a consciously Reformation poem and one written within the older epic allegorical tradition, and she also illustrates Milton's innovative uses of biblical "Accommodation" theory so as to create a variety of radical allegorical metaphors in his poem. This study brings together a wide range of critical issues�the Homeric-Virgilian tradition of allegorical reading of epic; early Renaissance theory of all poetry as "translation" or allegorical metaphor; midrashic linguistic techniques in the representation of the Word; Milton's God; neoclassical strictures on Milton's allegory and allegory in general�all of these are brought together in new and comprehensive perspective. Allegorical Poetics and the Epic, with its redefining of allegorical mode and language and its revisionary readings of Tasso's theories and Milton's artistry, will interest not only Miltonists, Spenserians and students of comparative literature but all concerned with the history of epic, rhetoric and the newly developing fields of language theory and theory of allegory. / Contents Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Theory of Allegory in Poetry and Epic from Antiquity to the Renaissance 1. Antiquity to the Middle Ages Late Classical Interpreters and Their Successors Rabbinical Interpretation The Church Fathers and Medieval Allegory The Medieval "Levels" Dante 2. Renaissance Theoretical Developments Coluccio Salutati The English Rhetoricians 3. The English Mythographers and Their Tradition Bacon Comes and the "Levels" John Harington and His Successors 4. "Idea" Philo � Boccaccio Sidney Tasso Part II. Theory of the Allegorical Epic from Tasso, Spenser and the Neoclassicals to Milton 5. Tasso: The Practical Problems of the Allegorical Epic "Metafora Continuata" Moral Content: Tasso's "Allegoria" The Resources of "Continued" Allegory The "Lettere Poetiche" and the Gerusalemme 6. Tasso, the Discorsi: Aesthetics of the Allegorical Epic The Mystical Image "Romance" Variety and "Global" Allegory "Truth" and the "Verisimilar" 7. Tasso, the Major Tracts: The Poetics of the Allegorical Epic Narrative Unity and Causality in the Mixed Epic The Marvellous-Verisimilar History and Fiction in the Epic History and Allegory: The Late Giudizio Tasso: A Retrospect 8. Spenser as Allegorical Theorist Spenser and Tasso The "Letter to Raleigh": Schemes of Allegory in The Faerie Queene 9. Neoclassical Epic Theory: The Debate over Allegory Seventeenth-Centmy English Theory Addison and Johnson Edward Phillips and John Toland The Late Sixteenth-Century Italian Debates 10. Le Bossu on the Epic Allegory as the "Platform" of Truth Unity of Plot via Allegory 11. Debts to Renaissance Allegory in Paradise Lost Allegorical Matter in Paradise Lost The "Levels" Intermittent and Sustained Allegory Allegorical Rhetoric Milton and Spenser 12. Allegorical Poetics in Paradise Lost Early Indications in Milton's Prose Borrowings from Tasso in Paradise Lost Structuring the "Diffuse" Epic: Echoes of Tasso's Discorsi 13. Allegory and "Idea" in Paradise Lost Plot, Subject and "Platform": Justifying God The Problem of the Justice of God "Asserting" Providence "Justifying" through Allegory Allegorical Aesthetics in Paradise Lost Fart III. "Real or Allegoric": Representation in Paradise Lost 14. Historical Problems in Reading Paradise Lost Samuel Johnson Luther and Poetic Fundamentalism 15. Scripture and the Figurative Reading of Paradise Lost Milton on Allegory Of Christian Doctrine on Interpreting Scripture "Accommodation" in Of Christian Doctrine 16. Theory of Metaphor in Paradise Lost "Accommodation": Raphael's Theory of Discourse Shadows, Similitudes, Dreams: Language as Mediator 17. Typology and the Figurative Dimension in Paradise Lost "Typological Symbolism" in Paradise Lost True "Types" and the Limits of Typological Interpretation Problems in "Typological" Readings of Paradise Lost "Typologically" Suggestive Pattemings Verbal Echo and Anticipation 18. Protestant Homiletics and Allegory in Paradise Lost The "Experiential" Approach The Bible, Figuration and Paradise Lost: Summary 19. "Accommodation" in Paradise Lost: The Internal View Milton's Uses of Extra-Canonical Matter Milton's God: Mimesis and Midrash 20. Toward an Allegorical Poesis in Paradise Lost Realism and Non-Realism: "Probability" to Allegory "Implication" and Simile Emblem and Allegorical Episode 21. The "Language of Allegory" and Milton's Allegorical Epic. ISBN 9780813118314