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Allegory and Ideology (Paperback)
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Allegory and Ideology (Paperback)
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Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a
machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind).
It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers
contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The
inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive,
ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an
account of this simultaneous processing of multiple meanings,
rather than an abandonment to liberal pluralisms and tolerant (or
intolerant) relativisms. This is not a book about "method", but it
does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath
the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities,
our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our
alienation to a disembodied new world of information and
abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter
Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of
an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated
Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a
proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is
tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical
works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as
symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern
as well as Third-World: about which a notorious essay on National
Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an
allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its
contemporary, geopolitical context.
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