Dr Vladimir Brljak vladimir.brljak@durham.ac.uk
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Introduction: Allegory Past and Present
Brljak, Vladimir
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Dr Vladimir Brljak vladimir.brljak@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract
Since the 1950s, however, allegory has increasingly been approached in ways that bring these perspectives into closer alignment: as a phenomenon in its own right, inviting a broad historical and theoretical outlook. So construed, allegory studies have become a stable nexus of cross-period and cross-disciplinary work in the humanities and social sciences, as a growing number of scholars have come to realize that the subject has outgrown traditional disciplinary models and requires a dedicated research platform in its own right. Intentional allegory comes to be closely associated with two generic clusters, both epitomized in later classical and postclassical times by the works of Virgil: that of pastoral poetry and related kinds of literature, often used to convey political, satirical, autobiographical, and other forms of broadly topical allegory. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
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Brljak, V. (2022). Introduction: Allegory Past and Present. In V. Brljak (Ed.), Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives (1-40). Routledge
Online Publication Date | Aug 31, 2021 |
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Publication Date | 2022 |
Deposit Date | Aug 28, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 3, 2023 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1-40 |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Book Title | Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives |
Publisher URL | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003183341-1/introduction-vladimir-brljak |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives on 31 August 2021, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780367521943
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