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Questions related to allegories, i.e. a type of text in which a metaphor is extended throughout the entire narrative. Examples include the cave allegory in Book VII of Plato's Republic, and Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene, in which the several knights stand for different virtues.
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Are the inconsistencies in Harry Potter symbolic or allegorical?
Has Rowling ever intimated, or is there any additional evidence, that some or all of the logical inconsistency in her invented world should be read as allegory or metaphor? …
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If Tolkien disliked allegory, why are there so many allegorical readings of The Lord of the ...
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always
have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. … Did he really not intend it as an allegory? If so, how does this square with his dislike of allegory? …
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