Dark conceit;: The making of allegory

by Edwin Honig

This book explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of literary allegory. The first chapter estimates the biases that obscure the subject, then proposes a different view. The second chapter surveys the changing concept of allegory from a perspective that leads into our own times In the third chapter the focus is on the typical constructs of allegorical narration and in the fourth chapter, on allegory as a problem for it makers. The fofthe chapter follows the development of three essential verbal modes in allegorical fiction. And because the best allegory embodies an ideal which is integral to its methods the final chapter discusses the role of such ideals in allegory and in related types of fiction.

210 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1982