No Particular Place to go: Allegorical Devices in Jens Schelderup Sneedorff's Den patriotiske Tilskuer

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Abstract

The essayistic, narrative treatment of various aspects of daily life in the spectatorial periodicals is one of the major inventions of this genre. In using this literary form the weeklies resemble the newly emerging genre of the novel. At the same time, older literary forms like allegory are also present in the moral weeklies, although they are retooled for a contemporary audience. The present case study on the temple allegories in Sneedorff's Danish Den patriotiske Tilskuer will show, that allegory has its proper semantics with a distinct tendency toward abstraction and generalization in contrast to a mimesis based on empirical investment in the concrete and demonstrable.
Translated title of the contributionSteder i særdeleshed: Allegoriske indretninger i dansk Spectator-litteratur
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpectator-Type Periodicals in International Perspective : Enlightened Moral Journalism in Europe and North America
EditorsMisia Sophia Doms
Number of pages16
Volume1
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherPeter Lang
Publication date2020
Pages393-408
ISBN (Print)978-3-631-76114-4
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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