By N H Reeve
This serious creation to Warner's writings goals to rehabilitate them from forget by means of discussing the advance of his rules and their troublesome courting with the fictitious varieties wherein he articulated them - a courting which deepens his ostensibly effortless narratives, and which increases questions of continuous literary interest.
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In the strongest examples from the tradition, such satirical portraits can become themselves suffused with some of the grandeur and scale of the allegorical project to which they are incidental; they can become not just mouthpieces for an idea, but independent embodiments of it, able to influence anew our sense of the experiences they touch on as much as can any avowedly 'realistic' character. The reality of figures such as Mr WorldlyWiseman, or Uriah Heep, is displayed not in what might conventionally be called depth or subtlety, but in its opposite, in the immediacy and conviction with which they can be recognised as patterns to which the private experience of the reader is subsequently adjusted.
The partial nature of his achievement was underlined early in the book by the return to the provincial town many years later of one purporting to be George, half-coherently exhorting the citizens to renew the quest themselves. Such a bald resume inevitably emphasises the naively comical elements in a book which is certainly not afraid to take risks. George encounters true and false routes towards the goal, and learns, in the course of what is presented as his personal and political maturing, to assess those things which impede or assist him.
As Clifford and other commentators have pointed out, to adopt the forms of classic allegory is to commit oneself to certain presuppositions as to the nature of the world and the function and reception of literature within it. 9 Such a commitment would entail rather more than is typically included in the term 'parable-art', which Samuel Hynes used to characterise certain recurrent features of literature in the 1930s. 10 By classic allegory here is meant those narratives whose pattern is essentially the progress from doubt towards understanding, the quest to make the world intelligible.