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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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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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Mythe et allégorie dans l’œuvre de Lucien
Kentron, 2008 This paper examines Lucian’s attitude towards myth and allegory, under its double aspect of interpretative technique and creative process. A careful reading shows that Lucian’s use of myth and allegory is deeply ambiguous and
Corinne Jouanno
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Itinéraires, 2023 In this article, I will attempt to show how Han Song, one of the leading authors of contemporary Chinese science fiction, manages, through science fiction, to make reference the unspeakable trauma of the Tiananmen massacre.
Loïc Aloisio
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The Failures of Allegory and the Allegory of Failure
, 2021 Studies of allegory are invariably haunted by the slipperiness of the term itself, and it has proven impossible to offer a workable definition of “what allegory is.” In this chapter, I offer some considerations on a family of vernacular literary texts, French and English, that are generally labelled allegorical and were produced in the period c.
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Allegory, Allegoreza, and Ancient Oratory [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2019 The article focuses on the problem of understanding allegory in antiquity. The author, on the one hand, gives and analyzes various examples of the use of this figure in ancient oratory, on the other, examines certain aspects of the rhetorical theory ...
Svetlana I. Mezheritskaya
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Allegory: Image or a Figurative Device? (analysis and criticism of viewpoints) [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2012 Allegory has an old usage in Persian poetry and it is one of the features of Indian style. Rhetoricians from past until today have had different ideas about its definition and types.
j Mortezaei
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Chastity in Temperance’s Images
Religions, 2023 Ancient thinking conceived Temperance as the enemy of pleasures and excesses, mainly bodily pleasures. This idea was the source of Temperance’s depictions in the Middle Ages.
María Montesinos Castañeda
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