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Domestic allegories of political desire : the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century / by Tate, Claudia

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Source and meaning in Spenser's allegory : a study of The faerie queene. by Hankins, John Erskine, 1905-1996

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Piers Plowman and Christian allegory / by Aers, David

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Les contemplations of Victor Hugo : an allegory of the creative process. by Nash, Suzanne

Table of Contents: “…The Structure of Hugo's Allegory --…”
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Spenser's Allegory of Justice in Book Five of the Fairie Queen. by Dunseath, T. K.

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Spenser's Shepheardes calender ; a study in Elizabethan allegory. by McLane, Paul E. (Paul Elliot), 1907-1993

The little dream ; an allegory in six scenes / by Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

Monuments & maidens : the allegory of the female form / Monuments and maidens by Warner, Marina, 1946-

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Archetype and allegory in the dream of the red chamber / by Plaks, Andrew H., 1945-

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Allegory and philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ) : with a translation of the Book of the Prophet Muhammad's ascent to heaven / by Heath, Peter, 1949-2014

Table of Contents: “…Interpretation and allegory.…”
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Political allegory in late medieval England / by Astell, Ann W.

Table of Contents: “…; ""4 Chaucerâ€?s Ricardian Allegories""; ""5 Penitential Politics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Richard II, Richard of Arundel, and Robert de Vere""; ""6 Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and Maloryâ€?…”
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Spenserian allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis : a context for 'The Faerie Queene' / by Christian, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Spenserian historical allegory as counterpart to biblical typologyThe Turk in Elizabethan religious polemic; Spenser's Souldan; Spenser's historical allegory as providentialist analysis of history; 7 "a goodly amiable name for mildness": Mercilla and other Elizabethan types; Sermon types of Elizabeth, Mary, and other threats; Mercilla and Duessa as Elizabeth and Mary; The traditional reading and modern objections; Biblical uses of improved history; 8 Court and courtesy: sermon contexts for Spenser's Book VI; Sermon references to courtiers' vices.…”
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Boccaccio's corpus : allegory, ethics, and vernacularity / by Kriesel, James C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Boccaccio's corpus: text and body -- The allegory of the corpus: Genealogie deorum gentilium and scholarly works -- The poetics of the corpus: Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine (Ameto) -- The ethics of the corpus: Amorosa visione -- The love of the corpus: Decameron -- The hatred of the corpus: Corbaccio.…”
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Jacob's ladder : kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature / Kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature by Aptekman, Marina

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Kabbalah Then and Now: a Historical Perspective -- A Quest For Moral Perfection: Kabbalistic Allegory in Eighteenth-Century Đœasonic Literature -- Knowledge Hidden In Letters: Alchemic Kabbalah and Russian Romantic Literature -- In the Beginning Was the Word: Magical Kabbalah, the Occult Revival, and the Linguistic Mysticism of the Silver Age -- Modernism and Kabbalah: Linguistic Mysticism in the Literary Doctrine of the Russian Silver Age -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index…”
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Fruyt and chaf ; studies in Chaucer's allegories / by Huppé, Bernard F., 1911-1989

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In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory / by Kasten, Madeleine

Table of Contents: “…ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; I: 'Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On': Allegory and Dream Poetry; II: 'Musynge On This Metels': The Rhetoric of Allegorical Dynamics; III: 'The Seal Of The All-Too-Earthly': Walter Benjamin and the Dialectic of the Allegorical Sign; PART TWO; IV: Piers Plowman: Life of a Text; V: 'Speche, That Spire Is Of Grace': Piers Plowman and the Magic of Language; VI: Piers Plowman -- The Second Dream; VII: Piers Plowman -- The Fourth and Fifth Dreams; VIII: Piers Plowman -- The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Dreams; AFTERWORD: THE WILL TO 'KYNDE KNOWYNGE'…”
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Curative illnesses : medico-national allegory in Québécois fiction / by Robert, Julie, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sick Readings/Reading Sickness -- 1 The Nation as Body -- 2 Diagnostic Allegories -- 3 Sick Doctors -- 4 Strong Medicine -- 5 The Normal Pathographical -- Conclusion.…”
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Shadows of power : an allegory of prudence in land-use planning / by Hillier, Jean

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Allegory and sexual ethics in the High Middle Ages / by Guynn, Noah D.

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric, Evil, and Privation: From Augustine to the "Persecuting Society" -- Sodomy, Courtly Love, and the Birth of Romance: Le roman d'Eneas -- Allegory and Perversion in Alan of Lille's De planctu Naturae -- Authorship and Sexual/Allegorical Violence in Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose.…”
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Dante, poet of the desert : history and allegory in the Divine comedy / by Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942-

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Spenser's allegory of justice in book five of the Faerie queene / by Dunseath, T. K.

El hombre de una sola nota

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Varieties of parable. by MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963

Subjects: “…Allegory. sh 85003642…”

Seventeenth-century English romance : allegory, ethics, and politics / 17th century English romance by Zurcher, Amelia A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Allegory, Constancy, and the Politic Agent -- Incest, Rivalry, and Succession: Romance and the Problem of Sociability -- The Trials of Love: Interest and Social Bonds in Mid-Century Romance -- Interest, the Sovereign Hero, and the End of Romance.…”
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Aquaman and the war against oceans : comics activism and allegory in the Anthropocene / by Poll, Ryan, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…The Apocalyptic Ocean -- 4. Allegories of White Supremacy -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Daoism explained : from the dream of the butterfly to the fishnet allegory / by Moeller, Hans-Georg, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…A very short history of Daoism -- Laozi and the Daodejing -- The Zhuangzi -- Huang-Lao-Daoism -- Daoist mysticism -- Daoist practice -- Daoism today -- The Dao -- Images and allegories: Images in the Daodejing -- The wheel-an image of the Dao -- Water and the female -- The root -- Allegories from the Zhuangzi -- The dream of the butterfly-or: everything is real -- The fishnet allegory-or: how to forget thinking -- The happy fish-or: joy without joy -- Issues: The state -- The body (of infants and corpses) -- Life and death -- Time -- Nature -- Artisanship and art -- Ethics -- Language and thought -- Structures: Presence and nonpresence-or: the pipe of heaven -- Daoist signs-or: the difference between Dao and God -- Perspectives: Daoism and Chan (or: Zen) Buddhism -- Daoism and contemporary philosophy.…”
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Arts of being Yorùbá : divination, allegory, tragedy, proverb, panegyric / by Adéè̳kó̳, Adéléke

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Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts : Allegory, Authority and Authenticity. by Lehner, Christoph

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Milton's political ideas and Paradise lost as a political allegory / by Kiliç, Volkan

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Reading Borges after Benjamin : allegory, afterlife, and the writing of history / by Jenckes, Kate, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Origins and orillas : history, city, and death in the early poems -- Bios-graphus : Evaristo Carriego and the limits of the written subject -- Allegory, ideology, infamy : allegories of history in Historia universal de la infamia -- Reading history's secrets in Benjamin and Borges.…”
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The political and ecclesiastical allegory of the first book of the Faerie queene / by Padelford, Frederick Morgan, 1875-1942

Reading Borges after Benjamin : allegory, afterlife, and the writing of history / by Jenckes, Kate, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Origins and orillas : history, city, and death in the early poems -- Bios-graphus : Evaristo Carriego and the limits of the written subject -- Allegory, ideology, infamy : allegories of history in Historia universal de la infamia -- Reading history's secrets in Benjamin and Borges.…”
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Moby-Dick and Melville's anti-slavery allegory / by Pellar, Brian R.

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Giorgione's Tempesta with comments on Giorgione's Poetic Allegories. / Tempesta by Wind, Edgar, 1900-1971

Allegoresis : Reading Canonical Literature East and West. by Zhang, Longxi

Table of Contents: “…Cover; ALLEGORESIS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Validity of Cross-Cultural Understanding; Of Fish and Knowledge: The Translatability of Terms; Relativism, Universalism, and the Rites Controversy; Nature, Writing, and Chinese Poetry; History and Fictionality; 2 Canon and Allegoresis; Reading the Song of Songs; From Jewish Midrash to Christian Allegorization; Philo, Origen, and the Anxiety of Interpretation; Reading the Book of Poetry; The Use versus the Reading of Poetry; Allegory and Historical Contextualization; 3 Interpretation and Ideology.…”
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Homer the theologian : neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition. by Lamberton, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; I: THE DIVINE HOMER AND THE BACKGROUND OF NEOPLATONIC ALLEGORY; II: MIDDLE PLATONISM AND THE INTERACTION OF INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS; III: PLOTINIAN NEOPLATONISM; IV: THE INTERACTION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION AND DELIBERATE ALLEGORY; V: PROCLUS; VI: THE TRANSMISSION OF THE NEOPLATONISTS' HOMER TO THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES; AFTERWORD: PRECONCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING: THE ALLEGORISTS IN MODERN PERSPECTIVE; APPENDIX 1 An Interpretation of the Modest Chariclea from the Lips of Philip the Philosopher.…”
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The essence of truth : on Plato's cave allegory and Theaetetus / by Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976

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Revealing bodies : anatomy, allegory, and the grounds of knowledge in the long eighteenth century / by Goss, Erin, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Naming the body -- bodies without bodies: Burke's sublime corporeality -- What is called corporeal: Blake and the body's origin -- Bodies of meaning: Tighe and the body's apotheosis -- Conclusion: the body as allegory.…”
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Aesthetic individualism and practical intellect : American allegory in Emerson, Thoreau, Adams, and James / by Hansen, Olaf, 1943-

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Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790-1870 : politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth and to Arnold / by Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the 1790s -- Allegories of prescription: engendering Union in Owenson and Edgeworth -- Troubling others: representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid-century -- Plotting colonial authority: Trollope's Ireland, 1845-1860 -- England s opportunity, England s character: Arnold, Mill, and the Union in the 1860s.…”
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