Die struktuur van die allegorie

This discussion focuses on three aspects in the development of allegory. As a result of its religious origin, the most important allegorical codes are travel and battle. The date of origin, however, is undeterminable. Fulgentius's use of the Aeneas as basic pattern for his sixth century Continentia Vergiliana marks a further milestone in the development of allegory. During the Middle Ages, Good and Evil in allegorical moralities are portrayed ethically and didactically by symbolic characters. Ethymologically, the prefix allos in the word allegory inverts the sense. The allegory thus says one thing which means something else (allos). Allegory is therefore primarily a modus operandi which is characterised by its infrastructure (root pattern, threshold text, the reaction of the recipient). Three types of allegory may be distinguished according to their manner of origin: personified, parallel and vertical allegory

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• ‘N “Allegoriese” lesing van Lady Anne

  Open Access•Lianne Barnard•Journal of Literary Studies•1991

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• The English Epic and Its Background

  Open Access•Alfred Owen Aldridge, E M W Tillyard•Modern Language Journal•1967

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• The Language of Allegory

  Lennet Daigle, Lennet J Daigle et al.•South Atlantic Review•1981

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• Essays and Explorations

  Morton W Bloomfield•Essays and Explorations•1970

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• Allegory, Myth and Symbol

  Morton W Bloomfield, Morton Bloomfield•Poetics Today•1982

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