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In his interview with The Guardian, Self called this novel "a political allegory" and described "Heart of Darkness" as "deeply ambivalent about colonialism," pointing out that it can be read both as "a critique of colonialism" and as "a book about the contamination of the West by some awful, chthonic, primal rhythm".

Like Haynes's film "Safe," her memoir evokes the mood of horror without the genre's opportunities for relief, and it allows illness along with its supposed remedies to be read both as an escape and as an isolating, suffocating captivity.

Thus Rufinus's translations of Christian texts should be read both as contributions to the idea of a body of Christian literature, as this idea became established in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and as material practices that participate in an Origenist cosmology of fall and return.

As Gates prepares to leave office later this year, his speech could be read both as a judgment on the difficult missions the military has taken on over the last decade and a prediction that future conflicts would look radically different.

The story that inspired Eric Clapton's song Layla, the legend of Laylâ and Majnûn, is about a poet who goes 'love mad', and is read both as erotic longing and a mystical tale.

I suppose the clue was in the name, but I hoped After Hollywood could be read both ways, and also as a tribute to the lynchpin influence of the US industry.

In a 1947 poster promoting New York subway advertising, for example, Rand created a design from elemental geometric forms and colours that can be read as both an abstracted figure as well as a target, conveying the concept that one can "hit the bull's-eye," or reach potential audiences for plays, stores, and other goods and services by advertising in the subway.

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series that has been used for escapism for decades; Prince Caspian, published in 1951 but set during the second world war, is a particularly good example of a children's book that serves an escapist purpose, as everything in the novel can be read as both symbolic of the second world war and also of Christianity.

Vargas Llosa's repeated recourse, as an artist, to drearily masculine worlds can be read as both an exposure of and an homage to the dreaded father who didn't want his boy to be a pansy.

Thus, in colonial times crosses could be read as both Christian and pagan symbols.

Dunne's swan song can be read as both a mea culpa and a feisty exercise in cafe society muckraking.