Frye extends meaning beyond the anagogic allegorical coding of humanity
Evidence
Yet paradoxically this level-which the medieval theorists called the an:agogic level, and in which the ultimate allegorical coding in terms of the destiny of the human race was achieved-is not yet for Frye the outer limit of what the literary text can do, not yet the final form of “what . — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1704
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Frye’s ultimate meaning emerges when landscape becomes the human body — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1705; Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning; Postmodern allegory is horizontal and relational rather than vertical and fixed — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 392 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning
#corroborates(0.82) - Liberal humanism retards the enlargement of meaning that true understanding requires
#corroborates(0.80) - Postmodern allegory is horizontal and relational rather than vertical and fixed
#complicates(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 392 - Consciousness introduces differentiation, meaning, and plurality into undifferentiated Being
#corroborates(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 40 - Theoretical universalizations can recuperate difference into old Enlightenment universalist frameworks
#qualifies(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 409