Frye extends meaning beyond the anagogic allegorical coding of humanity

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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

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  • 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)

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