>Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:25:05 -0600
>From: Diana Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: Re: De nuevo la alegoria y Cervantes? (de Bryant Creel)
>To: "'A. Robert Lauer'" <[log in to unmask]>
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>             Let me add cuatro palabras to Bryant Creel s wise response to
> your exchanges on allegory.  My study of PERSILES, titled ALLEGORIES OF
> LOVE (Princeton UP, 1991), exhaustively explored the history of allegory
> as it filtered down to Cervantes, from Greek hyponoia to Quintilian s
> notions of allegory as extended metaphor to El Pinciano s claim that one
> could exprimir allegory from certain texts.  The root meaning of allegory
> is other-than-at-the-marketplace speech.  It need not be ethical, nor
> moral, nor religious.  Just other.   Within the Renaissance exegetical
> traditions of allegory, we encounter the notion that all literature is
> susceptible to the exegetical readings commonly given to Scripture.
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>             Vale,
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>Diana de Armas Wilson,
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>Professor Emerita
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>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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>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]).
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>Bryant Creel