Allegory in the USA surveys the heritage of yank allegorical writing from the Puritans in the course of the interval of yankee romanticism to postmodernism. In a chain of theoretical chapters the cultural functionality of allegory is mentioned when it comes to the mythology of yankee exceptionalism. every one theoretical bankruptcy is by way of a bankruptcy that analyzes a particular textual content or workforce of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is noticeable to supply a literary culture that either represents and subverts the beliefs of yankee orthodoxy.
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