4. With the Wells/James beak-up, we see "literary" fiction (bourgeois, private, mimetic, committed to recording impressionistic shades of feeling) divorcing from fantastika or genre (populist, public, anti-mimetic, committed to narrative drive)
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15. All of which is to say that it's natural to use fantastika to describe the world, so
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16. I should add, of course, that these political readings are not the only way into s.f. & fantasy. Guy Davenport also wrote a beautiful essay about Tolkien as a teacher and also what he might have gleaned from a Kentucky friend:https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/23/archives/hobbits-in-kentucky.html …
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You just explained religion in this one tweet.
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orcs didnt do anything, you're thinking of sauron and saruman
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tbh tolkien was a jeffersonian agrarian.
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Which explains a lot of the popularity of scriptural allegories. One story fits all.
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No, with allegories there can only be one correct reading -- in The Faerie Queene, Archimago represents the Catholic Church, period. Any other reading is wrong. That's why Tolkien hated allegory. He favored "applicability" where each reader would find their own meaning .
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Most allegories put zero trust in their reader. The hero of Everyman is literally named "Everyman". The hero of Pilgrim's Progress is "Christian." They encounter literal personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins, Temptation, etc, usually named as such.
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