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Blatant Beast

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Blatant Beast
monster with 100 tongues; calumnious voice of world. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]
See : Slander
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Kelley argues that the deconstructed figurality of postmodern allegory is anticipated by Spenser's revulsion from allegory upon discovering that the virtue of courtesy, represented by the knight Calidore, is indistinguishable from its opposite, slander, which is represented by the Blatant Beast.
Reinventing Allegory by Teskey, Gordon / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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