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Cinema Wars Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era. by Kellner, Douglas M.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Cinema Wars -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Plates -- Introduction: Film, Politics, and Society -- Hollywood Film as a Contested Terrain -- Cinema, Politics, and Social History: From Cinematic Realism to Allegory -- Hollywood Film and the Contemporary Moment: Signs of the Times -- Reading Film Diagnostically: Imagining Obama -- In This Book -- 1 Confronting the Horrors of the Bush-Cheney Era: From Documentary to Allegory -- The Golden Age of Documentary -- Real Disaster Films: From An Inconvenient Truth and Environmental Documentaries to Animated Allegories…”
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Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition / Memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition by Engel, William E., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Tarnmoor's mnemonic itinerary; Allegories of decay and the decay of allegory; Mime and masquerade in the theatrum mundi -- Poe's mirrored memory palaces. …”
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The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton by Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad -- Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross -- Augustinian epic in Paradise lost -- Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene.…”
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Ngugi's novels and African history : narrating the nation by Ogude, James

Table of Contents: “…2 The Changing Nature of Allegory in Ngugi s Novels Allegory in Ngugi's Earlier Texts -- Allegory and Postcolonial Power Relations -- Allegorical Satire and the Grotesque Image of the Body -- Ngugi's Textual Counter-discourse -- 3 Character Portrayal in Ngugi's Novels -- The Overdetermined Narrative Structure and the Victim Type in the Later Novels -- The Individualised Character: The Intellectual/ Artist Type -- 4 The Use of Popular Forms and the Search for Relevance -- The Use of Oral Tradition in Ngugi's Earlier Novels…”
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The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter : Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism by Petterson, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Rewritten Pasts and Scripts for the Future: Heart of Light; The Colonial Conditions of Heart of Light; Imagining the Inuit Community; Nationalising and Allegorising Greenland: National Allegory and the Global Community; National Allegory: First Take; Abject Masculinity; National Allegory: Second Take; Indigenised Politics; An Australian Context; Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary References; Secondary References; Web References; Index.…”
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How Buddhism Began : the Conditioned Genesis Of The Early Teachings. by Gombrich, Richard F.

Table of Contents: “…Book cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction to the Second edition; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Debate, skill in means, allegory and literalism; 2 How, not what: Kamma as a reaction to Brahminism; 3 Metaphor, allegory, satire; 4 Retracing an ancient debate: How insight worsted concentration in the pali canon; 5 Who was Angulimala?…”
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Wolf totem and the post-Mao utopian : a Chinese perspective on contemporary western scholarship / Chinese perspective on contemporary western scholarship by Li, Xiaojiang, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Wolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian: A Chinese Perspective on Contemporary Western Scholarship; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: 'Allegorical Writing' and 'Post-Utopian Criticism'; Part 1 Textual Analysis; 1 What Kinds of Stories Does Wolf Totem Narrate? As Allegory: The Qualities and Characteristics of Wolf Totem; 1.1 Allegory and Modern Allegory; 1.2 Tracing the Wolf Motif; 1.3 The Narrative Strategy of Wolf Totem; 2 Why Was There Such a Wide Readership for Wolf Totem? …”
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The breathless zoo : taxidermy and the cultures of longing by Poliquin, Rachel, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Wonder -- Beauty -- Spectacle -- Order -- Narrative -- Allegory -- Remembrance.…”
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Bodies and Maps Early Modern Personifications of the Continents. by Horowitz, Maryanne Cline

Table of Contents: “…Part 4 Continent Personifications in Maps and Book Illustration -- Chapter 9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio -- Chapter 10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum -- Chapter 11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the Late Sixteenth Century -- Part 5 Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century…”
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Postsocialism and cultural politics : China in the last decade of the twentieth century / China in the last decade of the twentieth century by Zhang, Xudong, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Literary discourse: narrative possibilities of postsocialism -- Shanghai nostalgia: mourning and allegory in Wang Anyi's literary production in the 1990's -- Toward a critical iconography: Shanghai, "minor literature," and the unmaking of a modern Chinese mythology -- "Demonic realism" and the "socialist market economy": language game, natural history, and social allegory in Mo Yan's The republic of wine -- Part III. …”
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The Roman Self in Late Antiquity : Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul. by Mastrangelo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Prudentius, Aeneid 6, and Roman Epic Tradition; 2 Christian History and the Narrative of Rome; 3 Christian Theology and the Making of Allegory; 4 Pagan Philosophy and the Making of Allegory; Epilogue. …”
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Elizabethan poetry ; modern essays in criticism by Alpers, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…Alpers -- The nature of the allegory / Thomas P. Roche, Jr. -- Spenser's undramatic poetry / Roger Sale -- The secret wit of Spenser's language / Martha Craig -- The medieval heritage of Spenser's allegory / Rosemond Tuve.…”

Politics, poetry, and sufism in medieval Iran : new perspectives on Jāmī's Salāmān va Absāl by Lingwood, Chad G.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and Style; Introduction; Chapter One Approaching Jāmī's Salāmān va Absāl as a Perso-Islamic Bookof Advice for Rulers; The Narrative Context of Salāmān va Absāl; The Provenance of the Salāmān and Absāl Allegory; Ibn Sīnā's Version of the Allegory; Salāmān and Absāl in Hạyy ibn Yaqzạ̄n; Coded Speech: The Overall Power of Allegory; Salāmān va Absāl, an Esoteric Mirror for Princes; Salāmān va Absāl and the Masnavī of Rūmī; The Historical Significance of Salāmān va Absāl; Overview of the Primary Sources; Salāmān va Absāl by Jāmī…”
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Animals as disguised symbols in Renaissance art by Cohen, Simona

Table of Contents: “…Medieval sources of Renaissance animal symbolism -- Renaissance naturalists and animal symbolism : fact and fantasy -- Emblematic literature and related sources -- The birds and animals of Carpaccio's Miles Christianus -- The enigma of Carpaccio's Venetian ladies -- Animals in the paintings of Titian : a key to hidden meanings -- Titian's London allegory and the three beasts of his Selva oscura -- Animal heads and hybrid creatures : the case of the San Lorenzo Lavabo and its sources -- Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the harpies and the human-animal hybrid in the Renaissance -- The ambivalent scorpio in Bronzino's London allegory.…”
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Reading De Man Reading. by Waters, Lindsay

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Abbreviations; Prefatory Note; Looking Back on Paul de Man; Psyche: Inventions of the Other; A Defence of Rhetoric / The Triumph of Reading; Lurid Figures; Allegories of Reading Paul de Man; Paul de Man's History; Pieces of Resistance; "Reading" Part of a Paragraph in Allegories of Reading; LECTIO: de Man's Imperative; Response to Paul de Man; Aberrations: de Man (and) the Machine; The Deconstruction of Politics; Lessons of Remembering and Forgetting; In-Difference to Philosophy: de Man on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche; Notes on Contributors; Index.…”
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Sodomscapes : hospitality in the flesh by Gallagher, Lowell, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Entering Sodomscape -- Figural moorings of hospitality in Sodomscape -- Exodus, interrupted: Lot's wife and the allegorical interval -- Figural neuter, desert of allegory -- Remembering Lot's wife: the structure of testimony in the painted life of Mary Ward -- Avant-garde Lot's wife: Natalia Goncharova's salt pillars and the rebirth of hospitality -- Soundings in Sodomscape: biblical purity codes, spa clinics, and the ends of immunity -- The face of the contemporary: lost world fantasies of finding Lot's wife -- Out of Africa: Albert Memmi's desert of allegory in pillar of salt.…”
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Spenser and Virgil : the pastoral poems by Pugh, Syrithe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Intertextuality and allegory in Virgil's Eclogues -- Virgilian negotiations in The shepheardes calender -- Virgilian structure in The shepheardes calender -- Reshaping the Virgilian Cursus: pastoral vocation in 'Astrophel' -- Reimagining the pastoral muse in 'Colin Clouts come home Againe'.…”
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The spiritual language of art : medieval Christian themes in writings on art of the Italian Renaissance by Stowell, Steven, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 Vasari's City of God: Spirituality, Art and Architecture in Vasari's 'Lives' and 'Ragionamenti'Spirituality in Vasari's Literary Context; The Stones of Memory in the Palazzo Vecchio; The Architecture of Allegory in Vasari and Hugh of St. Victor; The Time of Allegory and the Space of History; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects.…”
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The ethics of earth art by Boetzkes, Amanda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at the limit of form -- Contemporary art and the nature of site -- Spiral jetty: allegory and the recovery of the elemental -- Ecotechnology and the receptive surface -- The body as limit -- Conclusion: facing the earth ethically.…”

Gaming : essays on algorithmic culture by Galloway, Alexander R., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Gamic action, four moments -- Origins of the first-person shooter -- Social realism -- Allegories of control -- Countergaming.…”
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Mixed Metaphors : the Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. by Knöll, Stefanie

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations; preface; introduction; duality and allegory; dance, dialogue and duality; dances of the living and the dead; dance, music, and inversion; from allegory to anatomy; macabre parallels; dialogue and violence in medievalilluminations of the three livingand the three dead; mixed encounters; death personified in medieval imagery; death in drama and literature; romance macabre; frightened or fearless; the kiss of death; spatial contexts; places for reflection; the istrian danse macabre; the macabre in print; aphenomenon of parallel readingin the office of the dead.…”
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Dezafi : a novel by Frankétienne

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I too have some dreams : N.M. Rashed and modernism in Urdu poetry by Pue, A. Sean, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Embodiment -- Position without Identity -- Allegory and Collectivity -- Temporality -- Conclusion: Hasan the Potter -- Appendix: Poems in Transliteration and Translation.…”
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Conceptions of Shakespeare by Harbage, Alfred, 1901-1976

Table of Contents: “…A life of allegory -- The myth of perfection -- These our actors -- Weighing delight and dole -- The fierce dispute -- Shakespeare as culture hero -- Shakespeare's ideal man -- "O blessed letters."…”

Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age : a Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World. by O'Sullivan, Daniel E.

Table of Contents: “…Playing games with chess and allegory.…”
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Declarations of dependence : money, aesthetics, and the politics of care by Ferguson, Scott (Assistant Professor)

Table of Contents: “…Critique after modern monetary theory -- Transcending the aesthetic -- Declarations of dependence -- Medium congruentissimum -- Allegories of the aesthetic -- Becoming second nature.…”
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Listening to Old Woman speak : Natives and alterNatives in Canadian literature by Groening, Laura, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : writing "Indians" and the Manichean allegory -- Representation and identification : gender and genre in the first Canadian novel(s) -- "A curiosity ... natural and feminine" : race, class, and gender in the colonial writings of Anna Jameson and Susanna Moodie -- "Poor creatures, once so benighted" : imagining race in early colonial narratives -- Inhabiting a Manicheal world view : colonialism, ideology, and discourse -- Administering/ministering to the Indians : Duncan Campbell Scott and the politics of church and state -- The temptations of Rudy Wiebe : history and postmodern Indians -- "Contamination as literary strategy" : a postcolonial ideal -- "Children of two peoples" : hybrid texts, hybrid people? …”
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Post-colonial transformation by Ashcroft, Bill, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Resistance; Interpolation; Language; History; Allegory; Place; Habitation; Horizon; Globalization; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Dreams. by Jay, Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Series Editors' Introduction; Introduction; A Note on the Text; DREAMS; DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE; STORIES, DREAMS AND ALLEGORIES; Glossary.…”
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On Post-Colonial Futures : Transformations of a Colonial Culture. by Ashcroft, Bill

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER NINE: A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and LucindaCHAPTER TEN: Irony, allegory and empire: J.M. …”
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Alle thyng hath tyme : time and medieval life by Adler, Gillian, Strohm, Paul, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Varieties of time -- Measuring time -- Time and the planets -- Lives in time -- Timescapes: narrative shapes of time -- Allegories of time -- Ages of humankind -- The end of time.…”
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Body-and image-space : re-reading Walter Benjamin by Weigel, Sigrid

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Translator's note; Introduction: Distorted similitude; Benjamin as theorist; Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality'; 'Body- and image-space': Traces through Benjamin's writings; Communicating tubes: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin; Thought-images: A re-reading of the 'angel of history'; Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment: Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin; From images to dialectical images: The significance of gender difference in Benjamin's writings; The 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque…”
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Lovely asunder : poems by Deulen, Danielle Cadena, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Interrogation -- For my sister in the river -- Fig -- Corrida de toros -- In a past life, you were Joan of Arc -- How to pray -- Allegory of smoke and music -- Speak X -- Written in skin -- Apologia -- I want you dangerously -- Asunder -- Summer wasps -- Truce -- First wife -- Antarctica -- When Pandora opened her box, she found -- Pastoral -- Lost letter I -- Lemon -- Lost letter II -- Papaya -- Lost letter III -- Pomegranate -- Lost letter IV -- Tomato -- Lost letter V -- Plum -- Overripe -- Hearth -- Three -- Lovely -- Apologia pro vita sua -- Lotus eater's wife -- Civilian sonnet -- Morro de Sao Paulo -- The diviners -- Sangria -- Allegory of the winter doe -- Stein in love with Picasso -- Notes on the passion flower -- In a past life, you were Judas Iscariot -- Prodigal daughter -- For you.…”
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Tradition and convention. by McCoy, Dorothy Schuchman

Table of Contents: “…Creation of the Artificial Scene through Conventions of Allegory and PeriphraseD. The Relation of Periphrase to Pastoral Realism; 1. …”
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Walter Benjamin : presence of mind, failure to comprehend by Symons, Stéphane (Philosopher)

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin's philosophy of history : the Messianic is now -- The Kafka-essays and The origin of German tragic drama : on failure and the limits of human understanding -- The 'will to allegory' and the 'distortion' of truth in history.…”
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Kierkegaard and the self before God : anatomy of the abyss by Podmore, Simon D., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: anatomy of the abyss -- The inner abyss -- The abyss of melancholy -- The melancholy theophany -- The allegory of Yisrael -- The anatomy of spiritual trial -- The gaze of the abyss -- Conclusions: the (im)possible and the (un)forgivable.…”

Rhetoric and theology : figural reading of John 9 by Wright, William M., IV

Table of Contents: “…Louis Martyn's analysis of John 9 in history and theology in the Fourth Gospel -- The starting point for history and theology in the Fourth Gospel -- John 9 as a two-level drama -- Setting a new course for Johannine studies -- Martyn's contribution in context -- Martyn's influence in historical studies -- Martyn's influence in social oriented studies -- Martyn's influence in literary critical studies -- The critique of Martyn's hypothesis -- Historical critique -- Hermeneutical critique -- The critique of the two-level reading strategy as allegory -- Substance of the critique -- Deficiencies in the allegory critique -- Coclusions -- The two-level reading strategy as figural exegesis -- Improving the allegory critique -- Recent scholarship on premodern Christian exegesis : a resource for new categories -- Figural reading -- Grammatical reading -- Reframing the allegory critique -- Augustine and J. …”
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The ethics of Earth art by Boetzkes, Amanda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: At the Limit of Form -- Contemporary Art and the Nature of Site -- Spiral Jetty: Allegory and the Recovery of the Elemental -- Ecotechnology and the Receptive Surface -- The Body as Limit Conclusion: Facing the Earth Ethically.…”
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The ethics of Earth art by Boetzkes, Amanda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: At the Limit of Form -- Contemporary Art and the Nature of Site -- Spiral Jetty: Allegory and the Recovery of the Elemental -- Ecotechnology and the Receptive Surface -- The Body as Limit Conclusion: Facing the Earth Ethically.…”
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Kierkegaard and the self before God : anatomy of the abyss by Podmore, Simon D., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: anatomy of the abyss -- The inner abyss -- The abyss of melancholy -- The melancholy theophany -- The allegory of Yisraʼel -- The anatomy of spiritual trial -- The gaze of the abyss -- Conclusions: the (im)possible and the (un)forgivable.…”
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