Contents

Preface: Allegory and Ideology

1. Historical: The Ladder of Allegory

2. Psychological: Emotional Infrastructures

3. Psychoanalytic: Hamlet with Lacan

4. Musical: An Allegorical Symphony? Mahler’s Sixth

5. Political: National Allegory

A. Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism

B. Commentary

6. Poetic: Spenser and the Crisis of Personification

7. Epic: Dante and Space

8. Dramatic: Faust and the Messages of Historicism

9. Literary: Allegoresis in Postmodernity

Appendices

A. The Greimas Square

B. Consciousness Explained Allegorically

C. Culture and Group Libido

Notes

Index