Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind).

Originally published in 1979, this highly regarded work by a well-known feminist critic and theorist is now available in paperback." --back book cover.

Jeremy Tambling offers students a concise history and critical commentary on ‘allegory’ from its prominence in Medieval and Renaissance literature through to the Romantic era and up to the present day.

This book was first published in 2000.

Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.

With a preface by Harold Bloom and a substantial new afterword by the author, this edition reintroduces this essential text to a new generation of students and scholars of literature and art.

First published in 1997, Reinventing Allegory asks how and why allegory has survived as a literary mode from the late Renaissance to the postmodern present.

Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in the European tradition, Gordon Teskey provides both a literary history of allegory and a theoretical account of the genre which confronts fundamental questions about the ...

Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature is an interdisciplinary study that revises the history of allegory through a phenomenological approach.

Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism.