Hejinian 3: "The central problem with traditional allegory, especially in turbulent times, is that, most often in the form of personification, it serves ideology by bringing interpretation to a halt, and that is precisely what contemporary allegory--what one might term radical allegory--contests."
Angus Fletcher's allegory without ideas
2: "I am, in other words, appropriating the term allegory to demarcate (or caption), however inadequtaely, ideas regarding meaning-making that acknowledge context"