Allegory Studies Contemporary Perspectives

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Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary cultural and period-based divides from its shadowy origins to its uncertain future and from the rich variety of its cultural and artistic manifestations to its deep cognitive roots. Allegory is everything we already know it to be: a mode of literary and artistic composition and a religious as well as secular interpretive practice. As this volume attests however it is much more than that—much more than a sum of its parts. Collectively the phenomena we now subsume under this term comprise a dynamic cultural force which has left a deep imprint on our history whose full impact we are only beginning to comprehend and which therefore demands precisely such dedicated cross-disciplinary examination as this book seeks to provide. | Allegory Studies Contemporary Perspectives