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Why is allegory the basis of Indian style (sabk-e hendi)? [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغیMost of the books and articles written about the Indian style (the poetry of the Safavid era) have often mentioned allegory as the most important feature of the Indian style. In this relation, Mohammad Siāsi has published a book titled Isfahāni style and
Morteza Ghasemi +2 more
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The Significance of the Allegorical and Symbolic Register, Including Their Polarity within Painting [PDF]
Journal of Research and Innovation for Sustainable SocietyAllegory and symbol are analyzed as fundamental instruments for communicating moral and spiritual concepts, marked by a structural interdependence throughout art history.
Maria-Bianca Culuș
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Studies in Philology, 2017 The article traces the emergence of the myth of the Middle Ages as the "age of allegory" - from the formative developments of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through its classic statement in the work of Jacob Burckhardt, to its consolidation at the hands of John Addington Symonds and other British and American authors - and discusses its
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Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 2018 Allegories were introduced by Freyd and Scedrov; they form a fragment of Tarski's calculus of relations. We show that their equational theory is decidable by characterising it in terms of a specific class of graph homomorphisms.We actually do so for an extension of allegories which we prove to be conservative: allegories with top.
Damien Pous, Valeria Vignudelli
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On Allegory and its implications in the sonnets of Saeb Tabrizi [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2016 One of the features of Saeb’s poetry (1086 H) is his use of compound similes - particularly making abundant use of allegory. Allegory is a gate to novice themes and this is the case that Saeb participated in the theme-seeking game commonly held in Iran ...
Mohammad Hakimazar
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Echoes and Shadows: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Plato's Cave Allegory
Phenomenology & Practice, 2019 In the cave allegory, Plato illustrates his theory of ideas by showing that the world man senses and tries to understand, actually only is a dim representation of the real world. We know the allegory for its light and shadow; however, there is also sound
Edvin Ostergaard
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A Comparative Study of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Suhrawardī’s Tale of the Western Exile [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2019 An important allegory throughout the history of philosophy is Plato’s allegory of the cave. There are remarkable similarities between this allegory and an allegory from Islamic philosophy—that of western exile (al-ghurba al-gharbiyya) proposed by ...
Mohsen Amin, Mohsen Javadi
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The Allegory of Isomorphism [PDF]
AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard, 2019 Isomorphism has become a key concept for the analysis of representation in many contexts: perceptual experience, mental imagery, scientific theories, and visual artwork may all be described as standing in isomorphisms to their targets. Yet isomorphism is a technical term from mathematics—how are we to evaluate its use in fields such as philosophy ...
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Remapping the Constellation of Walter Benjamin’s Allegorical Method
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2015 The now-longstanding academic revival of allegory, as well as its import as a perennial buzzword of contemporary art criticism, owes much to a group of essays published in the journal October in the early 1980s.
Wong Jack
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Review of Eric Chafe. 2000. Analyzing Bach Cantatas. New York: Oxford University Press
Current Musicology, 2000 This analysis of the two tasks of suggestive theory help in making a precise assessment of Eric Chafe’s 2000 book, Analyzing Bach Cantatas. With Analyzing Bach Cantatas, Chafe continues to develop his theory of the allegorical use of tonal centers in ...
John Ito
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