>Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:09:31 -0400
>From: Bryant Creel <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: De nuevo la alegoria y Cervantes? (de Jesus G. Maestro)
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>To: "A. Robert Lauer" <[log in to unmask]>
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>I'm a little worried about the dogmatic [anti-cervantine] tone of these
>pronouncements, to say nothing of the many misconceptions involved (e.g.
>allegorizing an ironic work does not have to be done along moral lines,
>nor even ethical, much less moralistic.  There are myriad typed of
>allegories, i.e. figurative meaning.  It can just be making a metaphorical
>interpretation of the work, which has to be possible insofar as the work
>has meaning [i.e. reference]).
>
>Bryant Creel