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Article: Allegory and Violence.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 1998
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Gordon Teskey. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. $35. ISBN: 0-8014-2995-1.
Gordon Teskey takes as his framework the general history of creative allegory, still held by many scholars and assumed in C. S. Lewis's influential study, The Allegory of Love. In this schema allegory began at the end of the antique period and ended in the eighteenth century. Teskey himself concentrates on its closing phases, roughly the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. He argues that allegory in the Renaissance became secularized and served state power. Each state saw itself as a cosmos but was in competition with other states which saw themselves in the same way. For ...
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