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