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إن المجاز كتعبير أدبي وكأداة تأويل كان ولا يزال مدار جدل في الدراسات الأدبية الحديثة. وبما أن التركيز جاءت هذه الدراسة لتضع المجاز في إطاره التاريخي ولبتين أصل نشأته وتطوره منذ القدم وحتى عصر النهضة حيث بلغ هذا اللون من التعبير أوج ذروته.
As a literary mode of expression and interpretation, allegory has been a matter of much controversy in modem studies of literature. Since the main emphasis has often been on a theory of allegory without an account of its historical origin and development, this has led to some serious misconception. This paper approaches allegory in a historical context and thus shows its rise and development from antiquity to the Renaissance, when it attained its literary and artistic maturity. As a literary mode of expression and interpretation, allegory has been a matter of much controversy in modem studies of literature/Since the main emphasis has often been on a theory of allegory without an account of its historical origin and development, this has, I believe, led to some serious misconception. The purpose of this study is to approach allegory in a historical context and thus to study its rise and development from antiquity to the Renaissance, when it attained its literary and artistic maturity. Because the Renaissance sensibility for allegory was nourished by classical and post-classical examples and theories, and because this sensibility began to lose its vigor after the sixteenth century - perhaps with the exception of Milton - the use of allegory from the Renaissance to our own times yet remains to be studied separately.
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