Merwin’s Prose Poetry: Collective Memory in Uncanny Short Fiction by Françoise Palleau-Papin

“…Using syntax and repetition to suggest the repressed in prose poetry, and borrowing from several literary traditions such as a revised allegorical storytelling, Merwin emphasizes the memory loss by giving it a puzzling form. …”
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From Law Book to Legal Book: The Origin of a Species by Michael Widener

“…The article develops a definition of »legal book« using illustrations of law books that are taken from the books themselves, including allegorical images, author portraits, and depictions of lawyers at work. …”
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Benjamin’s Dialectical Image and the Textuality of the Built Landscape by Ross Lipton

“…In this paper, I will first discuss the textuality of the dialectical image as it emerges from Benjamin’s discussion of allegorical and symbolic images in his Trauerspiel study and the ‘wish symbol’ in The Arcades Project. …”
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Des colonnes pour des vertus dans l’art communal italien du xive siècle by Bertrand Cosnet

“…Even if the theme of virtues in Christian medieval art has been the subject of numerous studies, which mainly focused on its iconographic tradition and on its allegorical meaning, the very own characteristics of moral values’ pictures have rarely been identified. …”
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Proust’s Ruskin: From Illustration to Illumination by Emily Eells

“…These two figures are likened to ‘noble grotesques’ here, as they correspond to Ruskin’s definition of an allegorical figure conveying an inexpressible truth through symbolism. …”
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İBN RÜŞD’ÜN TE’VİL ANLAYIŞI VE AKTÜEL DEĞERİ ÜZERİNE by Mesut Okumuş

“…He believed that Qur’an not only contains verses to the simple masses, but also to the enlightened few philosophers highest truths. He gave allegorical interpretation method (tawil) right to the philosophers and adviced them to use al-Ghazali’s five being classification. …”
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Proverbs in Yorùbá Contemporary Songs by Oluwafunminiyi Mabawonku

“… The Proverb is the wisdom of the wise; a terse statement of few words. Proverbs are allegorical as the expressed statement is meant to have by analogy or by extended reference, a general or specific connotation. …”
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Konfrontacja ascetyki Hieronima ze Strydonu i Pelagiusza z Brytanii na podstawie wybranych dzieł by Anita Mularczyk-Budzan

“…Jerome’s asceticism was based on the allegorical reading and meditation of the Holy Scriptures, while Pelagius represented the moralistic approach to Bible and Christian life. …”
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Seyyid Muhammad Riza and his essay “Seven Planets in the News of the Tatar Kings” by Ismagil Gibadullin, Il’nur Mirgaleev

“…The title of the work has an allegorical meaning and is associated with the sacred meaning of the number seven and means “seven significant khans who ruled within the Crimea.” …”
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„Aleksander I jako król polski” pędzla Niccoli Montiego (1819) – malarstwo portretowe w służbie propagandy Królestwa Kongresowego by Mikołaj Getka-Kenig

“…He was a devoted Freemason, which may explain his inclination towards such allegorical depictions.…”
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Who’s In and Who’s Out? War News from Mexico and the Framing of Evil by Alan Hirsch

“…To memorialize him, the goddess has his eyes preserved in a peacock’s tail. This allegorical evocation of the rewards of visual vigilance embodies War News’ meta-framing.…”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…While it may be misplaced to draw a comparison between Fágúnwà and Fálétí, there is a sense in which Fálétí’s demonstrates a more robust literary sensibility that goes beyond the allegorical into a realistic assessment of human relationship and sociality within the context of the Yorùbá cultural template. …”
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Visualization of the Book: Graphic Metaphors in Art Decoration of Ukrainian Church Editions of the Baroque Epoque by Olena Kurhanova

“…It claims that the book art of this period is marked by generous use of symbolic and allegoric visual images which play metaphorical role in general structure of the book. …”
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Poules et poulets entre métaphores et realia dans la prédication et les exempla du Moyen Âge by Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu

“…These texts also shed a light on its place in the moralized naturalist knowledge, inspired by Bestiaries and finally the extreme allegorization of the hen and the kitchen used to represent Virgin Mary, the Christ or even God, in some sermons and exempla.…”
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O Simbolismo das Cores no Livro de José de Arimateia by Pedro Chambel

“…In this text there are references to several colors -white, red, green, black, blue and gold – which have symbolic meanings, that must be interpreted and taken into account on the analysis and comprehension of a narrative with a strong allegoric-symbolic content. Therefore, I intend to add a contribution to the study of the colors symbolism on Portuguese medieval texts, as an approach to their analysis, and give rise to a comparison of the meanings proposed by this study both with those of other texts written around the same time, and with other medieval forms of expression.…”
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Revisões da masculinidade sob ditadura: Gabeira, Caio e Noll by Idelber Avelar

“…This essay discusses the ways in which Gabeira, Caio, and Noll remembered, anticipated, allegorized, cut through, and/or ignored that context, and thus situated themselves in different ways vis-à-vis the revision of masculinity that took place at the turn of that decade. …”
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Solidarity and its decoloniality in global health ethics by Ademola Kazeem Fayemi, David Gerrard Kirchhoffer, Bridget Pratt

“…Through a decolonial methodological approach, this article posits that a beehive metaphor allegorically symbolises solidarity. In this decolonial interpretive account, solidarity embeds relational virtues and duties that foster harmony. …”
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L’hallucination de la connaissance : La Tentation de saint Antoine de Flaubert by Dagmar Stöferle

“…The reading of the Tentation leads to a double result : From a macrostructural point of view, the allegoric resistance of the text indicates a non-overcoming of the dualism.  …”
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Emblematic illustrations in the editions dedicated to Jonušas Radvila (1612-1655) by Aistė Paliušytė

“…They decorated the book and allegorically conveyed the ideas of the origin, rank, morals, and glory of a noble. …”
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Osobnost a dílo Matouše Radouše a tvorba renesančních epitafů v Chrudimi by Ondřej Jakubec, Radka Milotová

“…In some cases, a very original iconography of these epitaphs (e.g. the motif of Allegoric Crucifixion) proves that the commissioners of this monument were non-Catholics. …”
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