Allegorical moments : call to the everyday /
Hejinian, Lyn,
Allegorical moments : call to the everyday / Lyn Hejinian. - 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Traditionally, allegorical interpretation was intended to express an orthodoxy and support an ideology. Hejinian attempts to liberate allegory from its dogmatic usages. Presenting modern and contemporary materials ranging from the novel to poetry to painting and cinema to activist poetry of the Occupy movement, each essay in the book "begins again" with different materials and from different perspectives. Hejinian's generative scholarship looks back to experimental modernism and forward into a future for a vital, wayward poetry resistant to the crushing global effects of neoliberalism"--
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2023012298
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021068341 Uk
Allegory.
Essays.
Allegorical moments : call to the everyday / Lyn Hejinian. - 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Traditionally, allegorical interpretation was intended to express an orthodoxy and support an ideology. Hejinian attempts to liberate allegory from its dogmatic usages. Presenting modern and contemporary materials ranging from the novel to poetry to painting and cinema to activist poetry of the Occupy movement, each essay in the book "begins again" with different materials and from different perspectives. Hejinian's generative scholarship looks back to experimental modernism and forward into a future for a vital, wayward poetry resistant to the crushing global effects of neoliberalism"--
9780819580849 0819580848 9780819580856 0819580856
2023012298
GBC3A0808 bnb
021068341 Uk
Allegory.
Essays.