"Misprisions
of Utopia: Messianism, Apocalypse, and Allegory" Professor Paul Bove 10 June 2009
Paul
A. Bove
Distinguished Professor, Editor, boundary 2, University of Pittsburgh
5:00pm
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
113G, Main Building, HKU
"Misprisions of Utopia" reviews the comparative advantages
of recent criticism's commitment to allegory as a mode of reading
and a form of scholarly narrative. The paper weighs allegory's
relations to utopian and messianic thinking and argues that
there are important disadvantages to these continuing commitments."
