Why is American Fiction dominated by Allegory?

[Mark Kohut]

Lincoln is mulling over a statement by Walter Benjamin: "Allegories are, in the 
realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things" (Benjamin 1977, 178). 




----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Williams <daveuwilliams at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, September 5, 2010 7:10:42 PM
Subject: Why is American Fiction dominated by Allegory?

and why does this drive some critics nutz? 

see Allegory and Democratic Public Culture in the Postmodern Era
Robert Hariman