Allegorical Moments : Call to the Everyday / Lyn Hejinian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hejinian, Lyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allegory.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

The Good Life of Lucy Church Amiably

"Dear Sophia": The Intimate Excess of Philosophy

Prelude to the Curious

Mineral Freedom

What's Missing from My Life

Figuring Out

The Shown

The Sneeze

The Sad Note in a Poetics of Consciousness

Wild Captioning

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780819580863

0819580864

OCLC:

1395234367