Yet, in her study on the royal biography of King Louis VI, entitled Vita Ludovici grossi, written in Latin by the abbot Suger (1081-1151), (51) Spiegel demonstrated the possibility of an alternative narrative mode operating by so-called
anagogical ascent.
aldea motif that has for so long diverted critical attention from the deeper
anagogical and theological meaning of the play.
I derive this idea of the tropo-metonymie from the medieval fourfold interpretive model echoed ever since: the literal, allegorical, tropological, and
anagogical. In Schneemann's case, the tropological--the quest of the spirit--is perched within and as the vulva.
EM: The four are the literal (aka historical, a better term inasmuch as the Greek word "grammar" means, in Latin, literature; "literal" means the letters, what literally is written down), figurative (allegorical), moral (tropological), and spiritual (
anagogical).
The translations of the
anagogical third dimension (the ishara sections) of the twelfth-century Persian Kashf al-asrar on the subject of love are simply splendid.
There is metaphorical truth and moral truth, and they call
anagogical truth, in which I believe things which are difficult to believe, but I believe them.
Piwinski's "Gone with the Wind in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find': An
Anagogical Biblical Allusion" (English Language Notes 38.4 (2001)73-76).
The placement of the locations together in a single complex then functions as an
anagogical backdrop reminding the audience of Christ's judgement and the necessity to assure a place amongst the saved.
Davis describes a "sphere of permissibility" (181) in which these images served several purposes including articulating a political idea, aiding the interpretation of confusing passages, providing models for viewers' own spiritual lives, and
anagogical contemplation--a mode of viewing associated with Catholic tradition but espoused by Calvin.
Anagogical problem construction involves allowing students the opportunity to construct their own analogous problems to better understand the underlying knowledge and add their own experiences to the solutions (Bernardo, 2001).
The action or gesture I'm talking about would have to be on the
anagogical level, that is, the level which has to do with the Divine life and our participation in it.
The Seven Veils of Seth in some ways imitates the quality of sacred scripture which allows literal, allegorical and
anagogical interpretations.