The Role of Allegory (Tamsil) in the stories of Mathnavi Ma’navi by Mah Nazari

“…Paradox forms a remarkable part of Mowlavi’s allegorical stories. It is one of devices Molana used for foregrounding utterances and also for expressing mental concepts indirectly. …”
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The Role of Allegory (Tamsil) in the stories of Mathnavi Maânavi by Mah Nazari

“…Paradox forms a remarkable part of Mowlaviâs allegorical stories. It is one of devices Molana used for foregrounding utterances and also for expressing mental concepts indirectly. …”
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Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…It examines how the ostrich participates in an aesthetic of relations, which ranges from Schreiner’s allegorical practice to the reader’s method of interpreting the novel.…”
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Смерть животных в барочной эмблеме [Smertʹ životnyh v baročnoj èmbleme] by Maria Nenarokova

“…The Baroque emblem in an allegorical form conveys certain ideas to the reader. …”
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Russian philosophy and circus art by Markov Alexander Viktorovich

“…Direct competition, which encourages subjective emotion and allegorical thinking, was questioned with the ascetic of contemplation and direct reaction, intended to the rules more than to properties. …”
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Revisiting the Secret of the First Admonition of the Ninth Namat of Esharat O-Tanbihat in Refusing the Ascription of Salaman O-Absal to Avicenna by SeyedArsalan Sadati, Parvaneh Adelzadeh

“…Considering the existing evidence, the tale of two brothers, Salaman and Absal, could be considered as Avicenna’s allegorical-symbolic tales. After Khajeh Nasir, other commentators of Esharat O-Tanbihat and other works of Avicenna, considered Khajeh Nasir’s Salaman O-Absal as the third allegorical-symbolic tale of Avicenna; merely relying on Khajeh Nasir’s statements and without further explorations; while there were no documents other than the unsubstantiated claims made by Khajeh Nasir. …”
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Andrei Matveev: Painting Allegory from Antwerp to Russia by Margaret Samu

“…It then considers the place of Matveev’s work amid the allegorical imagery produced in early eighteenth-century Russia. …”
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„Bestiariusz niewiary”. Ludzie oddaleni od Boga w nauczaniu św. Hilarego z Poitiers by Helena Karczewska

“… Bishop of Poitiers, referring to the allegorical interpretation of Scripture, makes the characteristics of people away from God through unbelief. …”
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«Y en este monte y líquida laguna»: paisaje, alegoría y mecenazgo en el soneto 10 de las Rimas humanas y divinas del Licenciado Tomé de Burguillos de Lope de Vega by Javier Lorenzo

“…This allegorical use of landscape places the Rimas squarely into what landscape theoretician W. …”

Review of Eric Chafe. 2000. Analyzing Bach Cantatas. New York: Oxford University Press by John Ito

“…With Analyzing Bach Cantatas, Chafe continues to develop his theory of the allegorical use of tonal centers in Bach’s vocal music, also the subject of his 1991 book Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J S. …”
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Postmodern Plague Narrative: The Representation of the Polio Epidemic in Philip Roth’s Nemesis by Michał Palmowski

“…That is why eventually Nemesis will not yield a coherent allegorical meaning.…”
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The Reception of the Hebrew Prophets in Ancient Christianity by Riemer Roukema

“…In the fourth century, a reaction against the allegorical reading of the prophets arose in Antioch, Syria; the “Antiochene school” rather limited its approach to the historical context of the prophets, except for texts read Christologically in the New Testament. …”
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The Orient in Württemberg: the topographies of Hermann von Sachsenheim by Volfing, AM

“…This article discusses the construction of literal and allegorical topographies in Hermann von Sachsenheim’s ›Die Mörin‹ and ›Des Spiegels Abenteuer‹, focusing particularly on the apparent opposition between Swabia and the otherworlds to which the narrator in both texts finds himself transported. …”

A Dirty Hero’s Fight for Clean Energy: Satire, Allegory, and Risk Narrative in Ian McEwan’s Solar by Evi Zemanek

“…The story can thus be read as satiric-allegorical risk narrative. On the one hand this concept is responsible for basic misunderstandings, on the other hand for praise as "the first climate-novel by an author of world-class quality." …”
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A Comparative Study of Allegory in Attar's Conference of the Birds and Alfred de Musset's The Story of a White Blackbird by Mahnaz Rezayi, Arezoo Dasta

“…The symbols constituting the allegorical stories of different nations have many similarities in many facet, which continuously depict the real world. …”
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Still life: a poetic and photographic reflection by Maria Adélia Menegazzo

“…Our work aims to investigate settings that the theme finds in the contemporary poetry of Paulo Henriques Brito and Ana Martins Marques, as well as in photographs of Robert Frank and Francesca Woodmann and in a video of Sam Taylor Wood, enhancing its indexical, allegorical and narrative character.…”
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Remembering colonial violence: Inter/textual strategies of Congolese authors by Susanne Gehrmann

“…Three main strategies of writing about the topic can be distinguished: a documentary mode, an allegorical mode and a fragmented mode, which often appear in combination. …”
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L’œuvre de miséricorde du Roi : la statue de Louis XIV pour l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris par Antoine Coysevox, 1687-1689 by Alexandra Woolley

“…The bas-reliefs that adorn the statue’s pedestal state in allegorical language Louis XIV’s Catholic virtues. The first one shows Piety feeding the poor, commemorating the bread that was given out to the Parisians during the famine of 1662. …”
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Thematic foundations of Ján Kalinčiak’s poem “Králik [The wren]” by Marta Fülöpová

“…The poem connects two different thematic and generic components – the allegorical and satirical social poem depicting the course of elections and the genre of the etymological fable which explains the origin of a name of a bird. …”
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Repelling the Invasion of the “Other”: Post-Apocalyptic Alien Shooter Videogames Addressing Contemporary Cultural Attitudes by Ryan Lizardi

“…Culture in a given context can become preoccupied with certain issues and themes because of the societal situation it is born from. This allegorical function serves to speak to historically grounded contemporary concerns. …”
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