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

The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (

This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Exampl

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

This volume was published to accompany an exhibition of the works of American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking, Jasper Johns