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.
Table of Content
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 • Acknowledgements • Index
About the author
Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024 was a feminist avant-garde poet and scholar. She was the author of numerous books including, Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday, and the bestselling, My Life and My Life in the Nineties. She was co-founder and co-editor of a number of publishing ventures and literary journals including Nion Editions, FLOOR, Atelos, Tuumba Press and Poetics Journal. She had a long and distinguished career and is John F. Hotchkiss Professor of English Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.
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