![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this presentation, Professor Machosky will share her revised understanding of allegory as a structure of appearance rather than a structure of meaning, including analysis of how it applies to the western canonical allegory of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Allegory is the saying of the other, literally, “saying other than”, and so it is, perhaps inherently, a structure appropriate to properly engage with something “other” and allowing it to be just different, resisting a desire to appropriate it into western modes of knowing. In recent post-colonial (or, as it is perhaps better described, continually colonial studies), negotiations with the idea of “the other” are becoming increasingly self-critical and problematized, at least a recognition of the western hegemony. Professor Machosky applies this observation about how allegory works as “a structure of appearance” as a way to consider the Dreaming/Law/Lore of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Within and against the western tradition, allegory is a structure that supports the appearance of things that cannot appear in any other way. Thursday 18 May, 1-2pm (see CuSPP email or contact for zoom link). ![]() Please join us for the next CuSPP Seminar (taking place both in-person and via zoom) ![]()
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