Allegorical Moments Call to the Everyday by Lyn Hejinian (Paperback Book)

Wesleyan University Press

Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking\nAllegorical 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\n\nAllegorical Moments\nCall to the Everyday\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the pr;