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Anagogic

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an·a·go·ge also an·a·go·gy  (n-gj)
n. pl. an·a·go·ges also an·a·go·gies
A mystical interpretation of a word, passage, or text, especially scriptural exegesis that detects allusions to heaven or the afterlife.

[Late Latin anagg, from Late Greek, spiritual uplift, from anagein, to lift up : ana-, ana- + agein, to lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]

ana·gogic (-gjk), ana·gogi·cal adj.
ana·gogi·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.anagogic - based on or exemplifying anagoge


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In Tate's (1953) last major poem, "The buried lake", the anagogic images of redemption are grounded in this nature and through them the Dantean drama of a restored Eden (a higher pastoral) is enacted.
In this way different levels of allegorical reading are set up, from the anagogic to the literal, but they are fragmentary, and the real disrupts the symbolic (the tacky elements around the crucifix) just as the symbolic haunts the real (the amorous bodies over the 9/11 reports).
In this article it is argued that the novel's symbolic narrative is polysemic and, when it is read as anagogic myth, may be seen to span Judaeo-Christian Heilsgeschichte or salvation history, rewriting its chapters of creation, Fall, the problem of evil, the failure of law, the hope of salvation, the mission of a messianic figure, and--in the clearest departure from the Biblical narrative--an ambiguous representation of his return.
 
 
 
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