[...] But in the
allegory of unreadability, the imperatives of truth and falsehood oppose the narrative syntax and manifest themselves at its expense.
In particular, Crawford argues that disenchantment is closely linked to
allegory. His brief overview of eighteenth century attitudes to
allegory reveals a modern sensibility traceable to early Christian texts.
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Allegory to enhance litigation management and discovery solutions with technology, the company said.
It was through Paul de Mann that
allegory began to receive attention as one of the important rhetoric methodologies of Postmodernism.
An ode to the process of finding oneself in the fray of love and loss that is early adulthood, The Drunken Spelunker's Guide to Plato plays out the
Allegory of the Cave through the medium of booze joints and barstool intellectuals.
The term "
allegory" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] has been used since the ancient period and is associated with interpretive strategies that have been questioned and criticized for about just as long.
Students need to form a basic understanding of the different types of
allegory. For example, moral or religious allegories may occur in a religious or spiritual text.
In An
Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook "Canticum Canticorum", Marilyn Aronberg Lavin discusses each of the thirty-two framed scenes individually, as visual images within the larger framework of the history of art, as poetic dialogues composed of hallowed lines newly ordered to create a new poem, and as theological allusions in the form of human interaction.
The local firm
Allegory was given a brief with a dual agenda when it was asked to design Rooftop 42, a restaurant in a high-end district of Geneva, Switzerland.
Melaney's complex comparative study depends on a number of theoretical moving parts, including philosophy of language, aesthetics, modernism, materiality, and the distinction he maintains between traditional
allegory and allegorical works of modernist literature.
David Melbye Landscape
Allegory in Cinema: From Wilderness to Wasteland New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
In this classic study, first published about 40 years ago, Fletcher (emeritus, English and comparative literature, Graduate School of the City University of New York) describes his original theory of
allegory as a symbolic mode and uses the theory to demonstrate
allegory's relationship to other aesthetic devices, with examples of how
allegory works in art, literature, and in areas of everyday life, from religion to politics.
This week's winner is Jacob Arnon, who wrote, perhaps taking issue with my explicitly Kafkaesque gloss on the battle over Franz Kafka's papers, "This is too easy to use a Kafka
allegory to describe the fate of his own writing.
