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Allegorical Structure in Little Dorrit
<p>Little Dorrit is an extremely complex and puzzling book. In the past, critics have been satisfied to write it off as merely uneven or disunified. John Forster, Dickens’s close friend and ardent admirer, was among the first to make the criticism that it was lacking in unity. “The defect in the …
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Censoring allegorical texts: interpreting Orwell and Miller
… censorship and allegory through an analysis of allegorical interpretations of censored texts. The allegorical texts Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Crucible by Arthur Miller are analysed with a view to understanding whether censors of allegory are correct to assume that their own …
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An Allegorical-Figural Reading of the Troubadour Love Lyric
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O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
This thesis outlines the traditional anti-Judaic allegories found in the medieval bestiary genre, demonstrates the transformations of these allegories within the English scriptoria, and examines how these allegories reflect contemporary suspicions of the Anglo Jewish population. In the thirteenth …
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Allegorical tendencies in preaching and their relation to the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture
… dissertation examines the relationship between allegorical tendencies and the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture. Chapter 1 introduces the topic, setting forth the argument that the allegorical method presents an inherent danger to or denial of the sufficiency of Scripture. Chapter 2 …
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The Plowman as Preacher: The Allegorical and Structural Significance of Piers The Plowman in 'Piers Plowman.'
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Aristotle and the allegorical aesthetic: Poetry and the limits of philosophy from Alan of Lille to Edmund Spenser
… applying this understanding of allegory to the allegorical works in the period when Aristotle dominated philosophical thought, we can correlate the development of allegorical literature to the development of Aristotelian thought. The analysis suggests that the allegorists studied were grappling …
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“Life Out of Death": Poisons, Antidotes, and the Medical Marketplace in Christina Rossetti's “Goblin Market"
… fantastical, scientific, medical, literal, and allegorical when she wrote “Goblin Market” in 1862. I argue that Rossetti critiques the treatment of women’s bodies in the evolving medical marketplace of Victorian England at the hands of male medical professionals and argues the ability of women …
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Paul and Allegory: Galatians 4:21–31 Revisited
… 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 allegorical exemplar of the first century, was doing. This …
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
… 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 allegorical readers interpreted and the interpretative claims which these readers made about them. …
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Limited possibilities: agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
… black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the four writers are able to offer …
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Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
… black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the four writers are able to offer …
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A Thesis on Craftsmanship
… Sections, Elevations, Details, and Models for an allegorical work of architecture
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The Monstrous Side of Humanity: A Generic, Narrative, and Audience Reception Analysis of True Blood
… subgenre, the way the series functions as an allegorical narrative, and the audience reception principles demonstrated by viewers of the series. Through my analysis of episodes from all four aired seasons, I established the gothic vampire subgenre, a television genre from literary and film …
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Dark-Light Imagery in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
… attention. Norman Holland sees Jude as more allegorical than realistic. In his view. Hardy uses symbols and images to deny the relevance of Christianity to the modern world and to criticize the Christian ideal of self sacrifice. McDowell gives his discussion a less allegorical focus and …
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Gender and religion in the Phoenix
… of tropological, typological, anagogical and allegorical imagery and symbolism. St Augustine of Hippo suggested that ‘the sheer difficulty of a work of literature made it more valuable’ (Brown, 1967, p. 260) and that it was through ‘allegorical interpretation by which he [a religious …
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Religious allegory in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
Herman Melville's Billy Budd is an allegorical novel which reiterates the story of Christ's redemption of 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 …
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Born too far into life: the metaphor of the bee in Walden
… was the literal; the remaining senses were the allegorical, the moral, and the anagogic, or spiritual. A text could be meaningful on all four levels, but the highest and ultimately most valued sense was the spiritual. For Dante the world itself was symbolic, pointing to a greater truth beyond …
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