>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) >X-Sender: [log in to unmask] >To: "A. Robert Lauer" <[log in to unmask]> >Cc: [log in to unmask] > >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