Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More metaphor than mythology, the Goddess is vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat of wisdom by the use of intellect...
CONTINUING THE fine tradition of Ntozake Shange and Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor is a Black woman writing about Black women's collective and unique experiences, mutual understandings, hostilities and rapport. But as in those authors' works, a metaphor for the world of Everyman lies within and between the lines...
...anti-realism become tedious after a while. The director, it seems, is almost coercing one to interpret first, watch later. But unless one is prepared to keep a running tally of symbols, the piece is destined--indeed, determined--to remain little more than an enginia wrapped in a metaphor...
Some scenes have the bizarre beauty of surrealist painting, and all are skillfully crafted. The final glimpse, in which the 'symbolic children,' donning bowler hats and other adult clothes prance to a sentimental tune played on the familiar piano, haunts as a danse macabre. But even if a metaphor superimposed upon another should create an interesting metaphor for the ever-central void, the concept cannot sustain interest for all that long. Whatever its merits, the piece is likelier to clicit a perturbed yawn than a leap of any sort...
...Tyler, 41, has populated an imaginary Maryland town with characters as memorable as those of Faulkner country. The hero of Morgan's Passing is a loud, daffy, unfathomable presence, as unexplainable as an Ahab. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, her most recent novel, uses an eatery as a metaphor for family life, in which food is the stuff of history, and patrons are constantly eating and running away. The wife of an Iranian child psychiatrist who is also a novelist, Tyler still bristles at being described as "a mother of two." Says she: "For me, writing was the only...