Episode 144: Allegory
Sep 16, 2014•1 hr 3 min
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Episode description
David Grubbs holds forth with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about allegory, both as a mode of reading and as a literary genre. The debate hinges on what terms mean in which contexts: is a literary text defective because it's an allegory, or are there good or bad allegories? Explore that and other possibilities with us.
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