Conrad's allegorical reading of 1 Samuel 14: an analysis of a sermon by Conrad of Saint George on the worthy reception of the blessed sacrament by Jos Huls

“…This shows that the allegorical mode of reading has its own logic and cannot be dismissed as human fantasy. …”
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Dramatic and Cinematic Potentials of the Fifth Dome in Nizami's Haft Peykar by Heydar Ali Dahmarde, Hojat Raeisi

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Salaman and Absal in Abd al-Rahman Jami by Halilović Tehran

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Praising God or singing of love? From theological to erotic allegorisation in the interpretation of Canticles by H. Ausloos

“…Although this contrast between the terms ‘literal’ and ‘allegorical’ appears frequently in the literature on Canticles, the present article argues that this terminology seems to be inadequate for Canticles at any rate: reading Canticles either ‘literally’ or ‘allegorically’ is an expression of a false dilemma with respect to this book. …”
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Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…It examines how the ostrich participates in an aesthetic of relations, which ranges from Schreiner’s allegorical practice to the reader’s method of interpreting the novel.…”
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Principali commenti medievali alla messa romana fino al XII secolo: autori e tipologia by Łukasz Celiński

“… In the 9th century, thanks to the work of Amalarius of Metz, a new type of liturgical source, known today as the allegorical commentary on the liturgy, was born. Although culturally and methodologically very distant from us, allegorical commentaries, in addition to witnessing the history of the method of interpreting the liturgy, are also valuable sources of the ritual structure of the Roman Mass after the Carolingian reform and before the creation of the complete missal in the 13th century. …”
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Allegorie as argument. Galasiërs 4:21-5:1 in retoriese perspektief by D. F. Tolmie

“…It is argued that the dominant rhetorical strategy in this section can be described as the use of the authority of Scripture in order to present an allegorical exposition of the Hagar-Sarah events. This allegorical exposition is dominated by a metaphorical contrast between two types of sonship, namely sonship characterised by slavery and sonship characterised by spiritual freedom. …”
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Song of Songs and the charism of Mother Theresa of Calcutta (Cant 1:5-2:17) by Krzysztof Bardski

“… The ancient Christian tradition considered the allegorical interpretation of the Bible as an important mean of spiritual formation in the life of the Church. …”
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Renesanční epitaf jako médium „konfesijní identity“ v prostředí předbělohorské Chrudimi. Památník Tomáše Lvíka Domažlického (†1616) a Salomeny Francové z Liblic (†1619) jako histo... by Ondřej Jakubec

“…The central scene of the epitaph represents very rare iconography – Allegorical Crucifixion. We can find similar allegorical scenes especially at Silesian protestant epitaphs around 1600. …”
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Actualité du roman archéologique by Philippe Dufour

“…In this essay I will try to grasp the shift in referenciality through a small description (a meeting between the wealthy), inspired by Aristotle’s Politics: Hugolian images of decadence from Les Châtiments appear superimposed on it, so that the archeological novel turns into an allegorical satire on the Second Empire.…”
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Ovidian intertextuality and metamorphosis in Prudentius by Philip Hardie

“…Recent work has explored the extent and detail of Prudentius’ Virgilian intertextuality, most notably in the allegorical epic the Psychomachia, but also in many others of his works. …”
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Song of Songs – Current trends in research by S. Fischer

“…However, there is renewed interest in patristics, allegorical interpretation as erotic or intertextual allegorisation, and reception history. …”
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Zoomorphism, Biomimetics and Computational Design by Benedetta Terenzi, Saverio Mecca

“…In architecture, the image of the animal has been used both in allegorical and structural terms: from the Sphinx to the humanistic-Renaissance representations, Art Nouveau to biomorphic architecture. …”
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Fetiches do desejo e da morte: sobre a literatura de Valêncio Xavier by Ângela Maria Dias

“…The Valêncio Xavier’s aesthetic aims a climax in his last work, Rremembranças da menina de rua morta nua e outros livros (2006). The allegorical format of the narratives invites the reader to the uncertain task of interpr etation, always intercepted by the nonsense effect caused by the mixture between sensationalism and melancholy. …”
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Las edades de la República by Lara Campos Pérez

“…To do this, we focus in the different age sectors in which was presented the allegorical figure identified with the Republic, as well as the various meanings attributed to each one. …”
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Reading the Psalms historically. Antiochene exegesis and a historical reading of Psalm 46 by H. F. van Rooy

“…The Antiochenes reacted against the allegorical interpretation of the Old Testament by the school of Alexandria. …”
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The book graphics of Vilnius printing houses in XVI-XVII centuries by Jolita Liškevičienė

“…Later, the arms became part of a complex illustration: they were freely composed with other emblems, allegorical images, or a portrait into a unified composition. …”
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The Sexed or Unsexed Voice on the Lyrical Stage in 18th-c. London by Pierre Dubois

“…It argues that the rise of oratorio was accompanied by a re-composition and re-definition of the respective masculine and feminine territories and that the metamorphosis of the heroic voice on the English lyrical stage in the collective imagination may be interpreted as the allegorical index of a shift towards a “modern,” “Enlightened” conception of sexuality.…”
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„Tabula Rasa”. O medium i pamięci w odniesieniu do twórczości Sarah Charlesworth i pism Rosalind E. Krauss by Filip Pręgowski

“…The serigraphs by Charlesworth, who is associated with the Pictures Generation movement, challenge the semiotic interpretation of images as carriers of ideological messages or allegorical structures, a perspective commonly held by critics from the Pictures circle. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…It additionally considers symbolic connotations and occult properties deriving from allegorization of matter to study the role played by the ornamentation of naturalia. …”
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