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William of Conches, and Alan of Lille took up allegoresis and allegory as a way of assimilating works and ideas from classical antiquity, especially the creation myth and cosmology of Plato's
Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008
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David Steinmetz, Lewis Ayres, Margaret Adam, and Graham Ward have launched various complementary accounts of the value of allegoresis for contemporary biblical interpretation.
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When is allegoresis just an instance of bad transference unchecked by self-critical awareness?
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Benjamin's answer is that Baudelaire feels himself too distant from auratic distance itself; the auratic distance linked to lyric poetry and aesthetic autonomy is, to put it differently, what generates the allegoresis that Shelley can still undertake.
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He implies instead that a turn in modernity and the history of aesthetic "aura" has made Shelley's critical allegoresis unavailable to Baudelaire.
Gammerstang commented on the word allegoresis
the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory.
July 1, 2018