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Literary augury[0] is my term for that kind of literature discussion. [0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury
by tjalfi 9y ago
Literary augury[0] is my term for that kind of literature discussion.
[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury
- emodendroket 9y agoI feel like people get way too carried away with this criticism. I remember a comic circulating making fun of overactive seeking of symbolism, and the example they chose was Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." I mean, really, could someone have possibly chosen a worse example to argue for the primacy of surface meaning?