Allegory and meaning
 

Hejinian 189: "Allegory is a device that points to the possibility of other meanings, other presences, and other contexts for meaning and presence. [...] But the allegorical directs to one interpretation; its resignifications are interpretive."
 
see also "literature in its totalitarian mode"
 
contrast against Hejinian's "oversignifiying"

> from Lyn Hejinian's Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday (2023)

> tagged with #meaning, #poetics

> created Feb 15, 2025 at 11:17:14 AM


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