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Allegorical images : tableau, time and gesture in the cinema of Werner Schroeter. by Langford, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; A Cinema on the Margins: Contextualizing the Films of Werner Schroeter; Towards a Theory of Cinematic Allegory; The Allegorical Tableau; Allegorical Montage; A Gestural Cinema: Allegorical Figures and Faulty Performances; Brecht and Beyond: From Social to Allegorical Gestus; Werner Schroeter Filmography; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Allegorical Poetics and the Epic : the Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost. by Treip, Mindele Anne

Table of Contents: “…PART II. THEORY OF THE ALLEGORICAL EPIC FROM TASSO, SPENSER AND THE NEOCLASSICALS TO MILTON5. …”
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Reading the Allegorical Intertext : Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton. by Anderson, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Prior Publication (in whole or in substantial part); Introduction: Reading the Allegorical Intertext; PART 1: Allegorical Reflections Of The Canterbury Tales In The Faerie Queene; 1. …”
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Commentary on Zechariah by Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398

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Commentary on Zechariah by Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398

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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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How Philosophers Saved Myths : Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology. by Brisson, Luc

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Translator's Note; Preface to the French Edition; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; One: Muthos and Philosophia; Two: Plato's Attitude toward Myth; Three: Aristotle and the Beginnings of Allegorical Exegesis; Four: Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy; Five: Pythagoreanism and Platonism; Six: The Neoplatonic School of Athens; Seven: Byzantium and the Pagan Myths; Eight: The Western Middle Ages; Nine: The Renaissance; Conclusion; Notes; Index.…”
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The humanist interpretation of hieroglyphs in the allegorical studies of the Renaissance : with a focus on the triumphal arch of Maximilian I / by Giehlow, Karl, 1863-1913

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The court comedies of John Lyly : a study in allegorical dramaturgy / by Saccio, Peter

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The veil of allegory ; some notes toward a theory of allegorical rhetoric in the English Renaissance. by Murrin, Michael

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

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Structures of appearing : allegory and the work of literature by Machosky, Brenda

Table of Contents: “…Face Off: The Allegorical Image and Aesthetics --…”
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A history of light : the idea of photography by Mikuriya, Junko Theresa

Table of Contents: “…Plato's Allegorical Camera-cave --…”
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Reading Descartes Otherwise : Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad by Lee, Kyoo

Table of Contents: “…Elastic Madness : An Allegorical Comedy --…”
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Walter Benjamin and the aesthetics of film by Mourenza, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Charlie Chaplin: The Return of the Allegorical Mode in Modernity --…”
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The art of subversion in inquisitorial Spain : Rojas and Delicado by Fontes, Manuel da Costa

Table of Contents: “…"Sailing," Renaissance Rome, and exile in La lozana andaluza : an allegorical reading --…”
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A companion to Old and Middle English literature

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

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The persistence of allegory : drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner / Drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner by Brown, Jane K., 1943-

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Rethinking ghosts in world religions

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Millennial cinema : memory in global film

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Encounters with the real in contemporary Italian literature and cinema

Table of Contents: “…Emanuele Crialese's allegorical realism in Respiro /…”
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Reassessing epistemic images in the early modern world

Table of Contents: “…The Hydraulics of the Soul: Jacobus Meilingius's Allegorical Schemata --…”
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""When the Morning Stars Sang"" : Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. by Jones, Scott C.

Table of Contents: “…Traces of an original allegorical meaning of the Song of Songs /…”
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Brill's companion to classics in the early Americas

Table of Contents: “…Beavers as the bees of New France : the beaver's 'allegorical turn' in Father François du Creux's Historia Canadensis /…”
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Theorizing Scriptures : New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon

Table of Contents: “…Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization /…”
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Theorizing Scriptures : New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon

Table of Contents: “…Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization /…”
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Coping with the future : theories and practices of divination in East Asia

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The promise of hope : new and selected poems, 1964-2013 by Awoonor, Kofi, 1935-2013

Table of Contents: “…From This Earth, My Brother: An Allegorical Tale of Africa (1971) --…”
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Material difference : modernism and the allegories of discourse by Melaney, William D.

Table of Contents: “…Allegories of discourse -- pt. 2. Allegorical prose -- pt. 3. Allegorical poetry -- pt. 4. …”
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Spenserian allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis : a context for 'The Faerie Queene' by Christian, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction: a context for The Faerie Queene ; Part I Backgrounds: allegorical reading in Spenser's England; 1 Traditional scriptural interpretation and sixteenth-century allegoresis: old and new; Biblical models for allegorical exegesis; Traditional interpretations of the parable of the sower; Traditional interpretations of Jesus's visit to Martha and Mary; Statements about and categories of biblical exegesis; Sixteenth-century English exegetical theory and practice: Tyndale.…”
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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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The pleasure of discernment : Marguerite de Navarre as theologian by Thysell, Carol, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…1 Gender and Genre: MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE AND THE TRADITION OF ALLEGORICAL RHETORIC; 2 The Context of Liberty: MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE, CALVIN, AND THE SPIRITUAL LIBERTINES; 3 Certainty, Ambiguity, and Evil: THE THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE; 4 Of Brigands and Bridles: PROVIDENCE IN THE WORK OF CALVIN AND MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE; 5 The Pleasure of Discernment: MORAL DELIBERATION IN THE HEPTAMERON; 6 Discerning the Marguerite: ALLEGORICAL RHETORIC IN THE HEPTAMERON; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.…”
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Political allegory in late medieval England by Astell, Ann W.

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Materia of Allegorical Invention""; ""2 “Full of Enigmasâ€?: John Ballâ€?…”
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Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change : Accusations of Inconsistency in Response to Criticism. by Omar, Ahmed Abdulhameed

Table of Contents: “…Strategic maneuvering by means of an allegorical fable: The "victorious protesters" topic6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Beast fable, allegory, and allegorical beast fable; 6.3 Speech-act-based approaches to fiction; 6.4 Justifying an allegorical interpretation of a beast fable; 6.5 The conceptual aspects of an allegorical beast fable; 6.6 Reconstructing an allegorical beast fable as a critical discussion; 6.7 Strategic maneuvering in the "A story for children and adults" case; 6.8 Conclusion; Chapter 7. …”
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Philo of Alexandria : Introduction, Translation and Commentary. by Geljon, Albert

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The postcolonial historical novel : realism, allegory, and the representation of contested pasts by Dalley, Hamish, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…The contemporary postcolonial historical novel: beyond anti-realism -- Allegorical realism: toward a poetics of the postcolonial historical novel -- Typification and frontier violence: Kate Grenville's The secret river -- The gender of settler realism: Fiona Kidman's The captive wife -- Deterritorializing allegorical realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea -- Aesthetics of absent causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun -- Spectres of civil war trauma: Chris Abani's Song for night -- Metafictional realism and the dialectic of allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish -- Conclusion: The historical novel, from postcolonial reconciliation to environmental crisis.…”
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Sidney's poetics : imitating creation by Mack, Michael, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The history of creativity -- Sidney's fiction and the allegorical tradition -- The idea of poetry -- The imitation of creation -- From creation to regeneration -- The imitation of Cyrus -- Creativity and the origins of modernity.…”
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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

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Cabins in modern Norwegian literature : negotiating place and identity by Rees, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…The seter as a transgressive allegorical home -- Cabin, class, and nation -- The hunter's cabin as anti-modern retreat -- The golden age of cabin therapy -- The post-cabin in late modernity.…”
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