Since we can attend to an infinite number of things, what we attend to determines the abstraction and the allegorization we bring to the literary work. We look, not at the conditions of history at the time of the writing of a work, but at the interrelationships between characters in various works across cultures and times. We look at literary symbols in terms of their reference to, and relationship with, other literary symbols. This is similar to Eliot's notion of the working of the literary tradition and its relationship to new works. Archetypes are found on a continuum from Pop culture to High culture.
Brahman resides in everything.
From this springs a notion of the book as a world. The cosmos is in the book. This is actually a criticism of criticism. Frye distinguishes between the High Mimetic and the Low Mimetic .