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    Walter Benjamin developed a theory of allegory that viewed it as a form that emerged from the baroque period. For Benjamin, allegory is a symbolic representation where all elements have equal status and significance. Allegory presents a collection of fragments or symbols that require interpretation and have no direct correspondence to ideas or concepts.

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    Walter Benjamin developed a theory of allegory that viewed it as a form that emerged from the baroque period. For Benjamin, allegory is a symbolic representation where all elements have equal status and significance. Allegory presents a collection of fragments or symbols that require interpretation and have no direct correspondence to ideas or concepts.

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    Walter Benjamin developed a theory of allegory that viewed it as a form that emerged from the baroque period. For Benjamin, allegory is a symbolic representation where all elements have equal status and significance. Allegory presents a collection of fragments or symbols that require interpretation and have no direct correspondence to ideas or concepts.

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    from Cowan, Bainard, Walter Benjamins Theory of Allegory, in Walter Benjamin: Modernity, ed.

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    Peter Osborne, 56-69.

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