Allegory ...
Dave Monroe
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 31 06:54:03 CDT 2001
>From Angus Fletcher, Allegory: The Theory of a
Symbolic Mode (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1964) ...
"By having a surrealistic surface texture allegory
immediately elicits an interpretive response from the
reader. The silences in allegory mean as much as the
filled in spaces, because by bridging the silent gaps
between oddly unrelated images we reach the sunken
underestructure of thought ...." (p. 107)
Just something that caught my (decidedly unenchanted)
eye, is all ...
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