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)
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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. 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]).

Bryant Creel