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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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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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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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Civic Babylonian Pride in Vondel’s Mars Tamed
Early Modern Low Countries, 2023 In 1647, one year ahead of the official celebrations of the Peace of Westphalia, the Dutch poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel published a long panegyric called De getemde Mars (‘Mars Tamed’), a poem fully translated into English for the first time
Frans-Willem Korsten, Lucy H.G. McGourty
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Allegory as language: narration and representation in the work of Daniel Libeskind
EGA, 2014 One of the most commonly used resources as a project strategy in contemporary architecture is allegory, understood in terms of “speaking about the other.” Allegory transforms what one feels or experiences, in architecture by embodying and reviving the ...
Carmen Escoda Pastor
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On Ethnographic Allegory [PDF]
Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review, 1986 In now classic article, James Clifford offers a novel perspective on ethnographic texts. Inspired by literary studies (e.g. Jacques Derrida’s grammatology) he uses contemporary ethnographic works to question ethnography’s claims of scientific objectivity and a clear distinction between allegorical and factual.
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Three Types of Medieval Allegory as a Basis of Later Christian Spirituality
Spirituality Studies, 2021 The aim of this article is to outline the three most fundamental types of allegories that offered new and richer interpretations of the Holy Scripture in the Middle Ages and gave birth to new spiritualities and mystical movements.
Rastislav Nemec
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