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Showing 1 to 20 of 183 for “"Allegory"”.
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Beyond Allegory: Postcolonial Debates in Science Fiction
<p>Marxist allegorical reading in Third World literature and the pertinent analysis of binary class struggles in First World literature, typified by Fredric Jameson’s 1986 essay “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” have long been canonized in literary studies. The …
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Religious allegory in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
… man from Adam's original sin. To construct the allegory, Melville blended his plot with Biblical connotations and overtones of other religion-related sources, primarily Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Malville employed that characters to reaffirm God's universal law. He created the …
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Paul and Allegory: Galatians 4:21–31 Revisited
… and he even seems to flag his reading as an allegory, leading many to see in this text a justification for allegorical hermeneutics. This dissertation attempts to address the question “was Paul allegorizing?" by arguing that Paul was not allegorizing because Paul was not doing what Philo, the …
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
This PhD thesis discusses the concept of allegory from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. In the first chapter, which discusses the hermeneutics of allegorical reading in the late Archaic and Classical periods, I aim to show that previous discussions have misunderstood both the texts which …
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The Allegory of War: Spiritual Warfare in Old English Poetry
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The occult in Rabelais: three supplementary aspects of the Rabelaisian allegory
… which are functional in terms of the proposed allegory, it is argued that all occult references, by supposing the existence of a cosmic dualist (Above and Below), and by supposing the possibility of mutual interaction, support the theme of human perfectibility called the Itinerarium Mentis in …
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Viennese Japonismus and Modern Allegory in the Work of Gustav Klimt
… examines Viennese Japonismus and modern allegory in the work of Gustav Klimt. One of the paradoxical ambitions of Vienna’s early visual modernists was the creation of a new art that would, nevertheless, revive the essence of tradition, creating a collective aesthetic that crossed national …
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Montage - transformation - allegory : a study of digital imaging in dialectical film making
… Secondly it is informed by Benjamin's concept of allegory, a method of using montage to assemble historical fragments or emblems to reveal insights into the world of material social relations. The aim of my thesis is to show that transformation rather than montage has now become the primary …
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National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
… and Assia Djebar of Algeria treat the national allegory that makes use of images of nation as woman and land as woman as well as woman as land and woman as nation. My question is what these two women do with this Arab narrative tradition used mainly by male writers. Do El Saadawi and Djebar …
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Allegory and Metaphor: Soviet Productions of Shakespeare in the Post -Stalin Era
… circumlocution of social issues by means of allegory, allusion or satire. This dissertation discusses nine such Shakespearean productions. Their directors used these productions, brilliant artistic creations in their own right, in order to critique the government of the USSR, while exploring …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
This study compares the use of allegory and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
This study compares the use of allegory and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis …
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Allegory, mimesis and the text: theological moulding of Lukan parables in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis
The approach of this thesis is a departure from the traditional philological examination of understanding the variant readings in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis. The parables of Jesus in Luke are the object of investigation. The witness of the Church Fathers in the form of their allegorical exegesis …
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The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age
<p>Within this text, I explore the hidden power of images in American visual culture through painting-based installations. I investigate images of the past and present juxtaposed in a surrealist landscape. Through the use of images in the news, entertainment, advertising, and images within the …
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