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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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ART ALLEGORY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY [PDF]
, 2012 My research for the Doctorate programme began in 2007 by exploring how totranslate and reinvent cinematic imagery and searching for ways of combiningcinema, painting, and autobiography.Initially I looked at theories of allegory in order to establish how ...
Pairpoint, David
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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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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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The Lord of the Rings” and the World Wars: The Applicability of Allegory [PDF]
, 2013 "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, written by John Ronal Reuel Tolkien between 1937 and 1949 is an epic novel, set in the fictional Middle Earth, in which a brotherhood of humans, elves and dwarves battles against a mighty force of evil, Sauron and his minions
Tandoğan, Sinan Haluk
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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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