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Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday

Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday

Hejinian, Lyn

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ISBN10: 0819580856
ISBN13: 9780819580856
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Nov 7 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking

Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Traditionally, allegorical interpretation was intended to express an orthodoxy and support an ideology. Hejinian attempts to liberate allegory from its dogmatic usages. Presenting modern and contemporary materials ranging from the novel to poetry to painting and cinema to activist poetry of the Occupy movement, each essay in the book begins again with different materials and from different perspectives. Hejinian's generative scholarship looks back to experimental modernism and forward into a future for a vital, wayward poetry resistant to the crushing global effects of neoliberalism.

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