TY - BOOK ID - 2741220 TI - Rereading Allegory: Essays in Memory of Daniel Poirion AU - Amer, Sahar AU - Yale University AU - Yale University Press PY - 1999 VL - 95 SN - 0300078927 9780300078923 DB - UniCat KW - Allegory KW - Romances KW - French literature KW - Allégorie KW - Roman courtois KW - Littérature française KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Poirion, Daniel KW - Allégorie KW - Littérature française KW - Allegory. KW - French literature. KW - Romances. KW - Symbolism in literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2741220 AB - Guided by the groundbreaking work of the late Daniel Poirion, medievalists have in recent years begun to reconsider assumptions about allegory, asserting that medieval allegory does not contain stable meaning or the whole truth but instead produces a play of illusions and an inexhaustible regression of mimetic figures. This volume, produced in memory of Poirion's untimely passing. rereads allegory and explores its interpretive, cultural, theoretical, and political complexities. -- Back cover. ER -