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Allegory and Enchantment - An Early Modern Poetics (Hardcover)
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Allegory and Enchantment - An Early Modern Poetics (Hardcover)
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are
its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and
Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work
of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by
considering,in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to
leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries,
many English writers fashion themselves as engaged in breaking away
from an array of old idols: magic, superstition, tradition, the
sacramental, the medieval. Many of these writers persistently use
metaphors of disenchantment, of awakening from a broken spell, to
describe their self-consciously modern orientation toward a
medieval past. And many of them associate that repudiated past with
the dynamics and conventions of allegory. In the hands of the major
English practitioners of allegorical narrativeWilliam Langland,
John Skelton, Edmund Spenser, and John Bunyanallegory shows signs
of strain and disintegration. The work of these writers seems to
suggest a story of modern emergence in which medieval allegory,
with its search for divine order in the material world, breaks down
under the pressure of modern disenchantment. But these four early
modern writers also make possible other understandings of
modernity. Each of them turns to allegory as a central organizing
principle for his most ambitious poetic projects. Each discovers in
the ancient forms of allegory a vital, powerful instrument of
disenchantment. Each of them, therefore, opens up surprising
possibilities: that allegory and modernity are inescapably linked;
that the story of modern emergence is much older than the early
modern period; and that the things modernity has tried to
repudiatethe old enchantmentsare not as alien, or as absent, as
they seem.
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