Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:25:05
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From: Diana Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Re: De nuevo la alegoria y Cervantes? (de Bryant
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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.
Vale,
Diana de Armas Wilson,
Professor Emerita
English & Renaissance Studies
University of Denver
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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.
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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