Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801492389 (0801492386)
Publish date: July 1st 1982
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Who would think? Not a snappy title about what sounds like a pretty dull topic, yet this book, which I read back in the 1980s was a goldmine. Allegory is more than a literary device, but the way we perceive things, as Paul de Man argues, far more densely, in Blindness and Insight. I remember this bo...