This lively and innovative work treats a body of literature not previously regarded as a unified genre. Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that

"The Language of Allegory examines a body of literature not often treated as a unified genre. Reading a number of texts that are traditionally characterized as

This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Prous

By acknowledging interpretive theories of the past, Brittan provides a proper historical frame of reference in which today's student can better understand figur

First published in 1970, this book examines the use of allegory in religious, philosophical and literary texts. It traces the development of the device over tim