Search Results for allegory

... cockfighting texts (one that promotes the virtues of cockfighting as a sport and another that figures cockfighting as an extension of animal husbandry), the essay maps the range of cultural and behavioral practices that early modern cockfighting discourse makes possible. Located in allegories of the cockfight...

... project. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 a Allegory and Difference in Ralegh and De Bry: Reading and Seeing the Discoverie Dennis Austin Britton...

..., as experiments in secularity, as adaptations of allegory's visionary energies to the social and institutional secularization of early modern England. But in one poem, The Bowge of Courte , Skelton remakes allegory not just as an idiom of social and institutional analysis but also, much more powerfully...

...A. W. Strouse Christian writers have often conceptualized reading and writing in terms of uncircumcision. This study begins to uncover that long-standing literary-theoretical tradition. It describes how early Christian theologians, following Saint Paul, discussed allegory with metaphors...

...Amanda Taylor The sixteenth century witnessed the publication of landmark texts on anatomy and allegory: De humani corporis fabrica or On the Fabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius in 1543 and The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, published first in 1590. Each of these texts has received...

... on the province of tragedy. Heinsius, in response, defended the historical and philological accuracy of his tragedy, claiming that Herod’s affects are represented to him in the dream as aspects of familiar mythoi, pagan and Hebrew, not as allegories but as mental personae or noetic characters appropriate...

..., and community. Mercie’s labors are performed in continuity with a late medieval tradition linking work and virtue. Her example prompts reconsideration both of Bunyan’s own dissenting allegories and of the uses of literary forms and ethical traditions across conventional period boundaries and confessional...

... reexamines Book to a Mother 's adaptation of allegories of the cloister and its transformation of clerical practices of reading alongside lollard polemical writings that also sidestep priestly authority and institutional religion in Christian life. Although Book 's use of polemical discourse has been...

... a more residual, backward-glancing form, its allegories of Spanish greed and Irish theft likewise attempt to morally differentiate emergent English methods of expropriation from competing methods of conquest and customary economies. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

... of interlocking discourses are analyzed: the imagery of a ruler imprisoned by passions found in Boethius’s Consolatio ; a courtly love allegory in which royal eros submits to the bondage of legal constraint in The Kingis Quair ; and the figurations of limited monarchy as royal incarceration in the Anglo-Scots...

... order of the present; in this situa- tion, interpreters habitually deploy allegory or its subset irony to accommo- date texts from the past within new cultural imperatives. This is a funda- mental resource of cultural recycling and renewal. In this case, we can see how the Old Testament passage...

... probably comes from the early 1530s, while Dell was at Hein- rich’s court (see fig. 7).46 Amid the larger corpus of German relief sculpture in the 1530s, Dell’s work stands out for its combination of mismatched visual idioms and technical excellence. The 1534 Allegory of Christian Salvation...

... their knowledge of church history and of such traditional allegorical figures as Betteridge / Tyndale and Religious Debate  451 owls along with their imagination to produce meaning. At a formal level, it is a celebration of the power of allegory, when used for what Tyndale...

... with the harsh realities of Elizabethan justice, readings that examine the politics of the Legend of Justice tend either to reproduce Lewis’s claim and see the allegory as a simple propaganda tool for the polit- ically powerful or to retreat from real politics into the neutral...

.... The Betrayal of Antioch: Narratives of Conversion and Conquest during the First Crusade  463 – 85 Britton, Dennis Austin Allegory and Difference in Ralegh and De Bry: Reading and Seeing the Discoverie  117 – 36 Cornett, Michael New Books across the Disciplines  225 – 45, 435 – 55, 635 – 57...

... of the event he describes. The coronation entry, as a form, strongly resonates with the progress form of allegory, as well as with the second, or liminal, phase of rites of pas- sage.5 These associations are clearly evident in the structure of the proces...

... was widely understood in late Jacobean England as an allegory of the Catholic Church, both in biblical exegeses and in the wider cultural imagination, and had even featured in the English king s own commentary, A Fruitful Meditation (1588), republished in his Works (1616). By 1619, how- 634 Journal...

... Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning — that meaning being invariably a moralistic one. — Susan Sontag Moralization and allegory go hand in hand in medieval French letters. The courtly...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.3 / 2009 despite cultural pressure from new theological methods, despite what Joseph A. Jungmann called the “crisis” of liturgical allegory in the thirteenth cen- tury caused by the achievements of scholastic theology.8 Even more surpris- ingly, the Rationale’s...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:1, Winter 2012 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1473118  © 2012 by Duke University Press The eighteenth century coined the term “morality play” to define dramatized moral allegories, and in so doing modeled a terminology of self- hood and moral agency...