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“Figural interpretation” as a book category features works that study or practice a mode of reading in which people, events, and images are treated as figures that prefigure and find fulfillment in later realities. Distinct from both literal reading and pure allegory, figural interpretation emphasizes meaningful historical correspondences recognized over time—most prominently in biblical typology and patristic/medieval exegesis, but also in modern literary criticism influenced by these traditions. Books in this category explain the theory, trace its intellectual history, and apply it through close readings that reveal patterns of prefiguration, fulfillment, symbolism, and intertextual echo across texts and eras.

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