Two Concepts of Allegory : A Study of Shakespeare's the Tempest and the Logic of Allegorical Expression

by A. D. Nuttall; With a new preface by the author

• ISBN13: 9780300118742
• ISBN10: 0300118740
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-04-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The fundamental subject of A. D. Nuttall's bold and daring first book,Two Concepts of Allegory, is a particular habit of thoughtthe practice of thinking about universals as though they were concrete things. His study takes the form of an inquiry into certain conceptual questions raised, in the first place, by the allegorical critics ofThe Tempest, and, in the second place, by allegorical and quasi-allegorical poetry in general. The argument has the further consequence of suggesting that allegory and metaphysics are in practice more closely allied than is commonly supposed. This paperback reissue includes a new preface by the author.

Author Biography

A. D. Nuttall is professor of English at Oxford University and the author of numerous books, including Shakespeare the Thinker, published by Yale University Press, A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination, and Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

Table of Contents

Preface to the Yale Edition	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
The Tempest and Its Romantic Critics	p. 1
Two Concepts of Allegory	p. 15
The Psychological Basis	p. 49
The use of the Imagination in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 73
Shakespeare and the Idea of Love	p. 108
The Tempest	p. 136
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 171
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