... distinct forms of competition with journalism, on the one hand, and television, on the other. He comments on his relation as a writer to Western postmodernism and the concept of national allegory, on the meaning of innocence, the phenomenology of love, and the novelist's responsibility to both national...

... as an allegory of national salvation. In an interview with China Reading Weekly, Jiang says, Many online messages focus on the question of national character and national characteristics. . . . Apparently, I have succeeded in drawing my fellow countrymen s attention to the question of national character, which...

... of national allegory with almost farcical speed. The novel’s first section, “The Part about the Critics,” is centered on a quartet of European intellectuals obsessed with the reclu- sive German writer who publishes under the name Benno von Archimboldi. Indeed, the quartet is so carefully composed...

.... Fredric Jameson’s notions of the “political unconscious” in modern Western literature and “national allegory” in third world writing attempt to conceptualize a similar set of issues, as does in its different way Said’s notion of “contrapuntal” criticism.4 I have chosen Moby-Dick and Invisible...

... Zhang Yimou for selling exotic images of the Orient, in particular depictions of “ancient China” to Western audience in films such as Raise the Red Lantern.30 In his view, these Fifth Generation films are nothing but “national allegories,” to borrow Fredric Jameson’s term,31 which appeal...

... complex, are twinned along the journey. This ingemi- nation, as a Renaissance poet would call it, amounts to a belief that creation and interpretation are doubles of each other; they need each other. If a poet writes an allegory, the resulting poem apparently invokes and then controls its own...

... and the realpolitik of warfare and diplo- macy. In the process the forms of allegory are changing, molting really, in ways that rediscover the importance of ‘the literal12 In my dark ages, I believed that everything people said was just pos- turing or, worse, malevolent lies. My father’s condemnation, “You...

... and social environment (167). In Tripp, the world surrounding this creature appears in the form of land- scapes devoid of all human presence or still lifes composed of motionless objects that bear witness to the former presence of a strangely rationalistic species (167) and serve as an allegory...

... zones, we face the crucial problems of jus- tice and of survival. These are the issues of nationalism and globalism, of identity and diversity, of rootedness, situatedness, and multiculturalism. I propose to call this the terrain of horizontal ethics. It is horizontal because it entails going...

..., Wang’s death is not just a personal tragedy but a national allegory of the fate of the indigenous critical system, an allegory that seems to have a freshly renewed relevance to the present cultural con- ditions of China. Duke University Press 2002 ...

... production. The most famous response to Jameson remains Aijaz Ahmad, “Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the ‘National Allegory Social Text 17 (1987): 3–25. 17. Robert Young prefers the term tricontinental as a more politically neutral descriptor of the geopolitical regions often referred...

...’ of the city of this culturally variegated and obviously still quite divided metropolis—one that had known three national regimes (Spanish, French, and American) all within the first decade of the nineteenth century.5 2...

... to explore themes involving literature and science, particularity and the abstraction, geometry and metaphor, stillness and dynamism that he first energetically expounded in Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode (1964).2 One of literature s key aspects that topology models, Fletcher sug- gests, is form...

...,” de Man argued to shift attention from space to time, and his primary mode, allegory, is very much a temporal category, occurring as a temporal realization, like irony. Then criticism in the nineties shifted back to a concern with space, certainly in postcolonialism, in work about the nation...

... 27 ( May–June ): 65 – 97 . Jameson Fredric . 2019 . Allegory and Ideology . London : Verso . Mulhern Francis . 2000 . Culture/Metaculture . London : Routledge . Mulhern Francis . 2002 . “ Beyond Metaculture .” New Left Review 16 ( July–August ): 86 – 104...

.... Griffith and the Origins of American Narra- tive Film and the recently published The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Modernity and Vision, he has written numerous essays on early and international silent cinema...

... Conservative Place. He is currently completing a book titled After Allegory. Leah Feldman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. Her dissertation focuses on literature of Russia and the Russian empire, par- boundary 2 39 2 (2012) DOI 10.1215/01903659-1597961 © 2012...

..., as evidenced, for instance, in “Rhetoric of Tropes,” one of the best essays in Allegories of Reading. In that essay, de Man explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s assump- tions about literary and philosophical language as they emerge from notes 2. Jacques Dubois et al., A General Rhetoric: By Group μ...

... with the modes of signifying—a term he uses in his essay on the ‘‘Task of the TranslatorBenjamin developed it in his theory of allegory, which he placed at the center of The Origins of the German Mourning Play, his unsuccessful attempt to ‘‘habili...

.../epc/authors/ duplessis. Angus Fletcher is distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative litera- ture at CUNY Graduate School. Author of books on allegory, Spenser, and Milton, he edited The Literature of Fact for the English Institute. Harvard University Press has published his...