Angus Fletcher's critique of allegory
 

Angus Fletcher: "allegory is the authoritarian mode of literature and art and discourse, and its claim to be able to project permanent truths is perhaps its chief traditional claim"
 
qt'd by Hejinian, 5
 
see his allegory without ideas

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

> tagged with #literary_criticism, #authority, #language

> created Oct 5, 2024 at 9:16:30 AM


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