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| | Allegory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The fable or parable is a short allegory with one definite moral. | | | Northrop Frye discussed the continuum of allegory from what he termed the "naive allegory" of The Faerie Queen to the more private allegories of modern paradox literature. | | | The late Jewish and Early Christian visionary Apocalyptic literature, with its base in the Book of Daniel, presents allegorical figures, of which the Whore of Babylon and the Beast of Revelation are the most familiar. |
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| | Lewis on Allegory |
| | Is Elric an allegory of the non-existence of God? | | | I think part of the point of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is that Lewis's allegories, or analogies, or fables or parables or whatever are not very self-consistent. | | | But the frozen Narnia thawing and the spring returning is ALSO a "picture" of Christ's redemptive death; and then again, so is the sequence in which the animals that the white which has turned into statues come to life. |
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| | [EMLS 7.2 (September, 2001]: 9.1-7 Review of Kenneth Borris, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature |
| | Allegory, he insists, was a valued mode, with a particularly strong association with epic and romance, throughout the early modern period. | | | Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature is an extremely well-researched, meticulously documented, and well-edited work. | | | Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton. |
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| | The Moral of Our Tale: The Function of Allegory |
| | The use of allegory was reserved for literate society, and in the Middle Ages this meant the nobility and clerks. | | | But the Lover is lulled by the beauty and courtliness of the company to which she leads him. | | | Most allegories begin with the author falling asleep or into a deep reverie; The Romance of the Rose conforms to this type. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke History Lesson: A Modern Allegory of the Cave |
| | This allegory is one of the most debated philosophical stories and one which is disputed anew among every generation. | | | The Allegory of the Cave described in Book VII of this major work is told by Socrates. | | | The prisoners in the cave have a very pitiful life indeed, for they are confined to their location and thus live a very passive life. |
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| | Allegory in the Bible or the Bible as Allegory by David Teubner |
| | According to the allegory, the Christ is the Word of God. | | | This New Testament rendering of the allegory is nearly identical to the Genesis allegory, but with human beings as the characters in the drama. | | | In allegory, YOU become the "fragment of the divine spark" fallen into forgetfulness; you become a main character in your own personal narrative. |
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| | Reflections on Allegory-Main Page |
| | "Allegory, in some sense, belongs not to medieval man but to man, or even to mind, in general. | | | "The various analogies that can be drawn between religious, literary, and psychoanalytically observed phenomena all point to the oldest idea about allegory, that it is a human reconstitution of the divinely inspired messages, a revealed transcendental language which tries to preserve the remoteness of a properly veiled godhead" (Fletcher, 21). | | | The modern romance and the detective story with its solution also carry double meanings that are no less important to the completion of their plots than is the moralitas to the preacher’s parable" (Fletcher, 5). |
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| | Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Attitudes toward Allegory |
| | Croce says that the allegory is a tiresome pleonasm, a collection of useless repetitions which shows us (for example) Dante led by Virgil and Beatrice and then explains to us, or gives us to understand, that Dante is the soul, Virgil is philosophy or reason or natural intelligence, and Beatrice is theology or grace. | | | The central problem for Carlyle with an allegorical interpretation of the Divine Comedy is that "Men do not believe an Allegory," and yet he is positive that "to the earnest Dante it is all one visible Fact; he believes it, sees it; is the Poet of it in virtue of that. | | | The Faith had to be already there, standing believed by everybody; — of which the Allegory could then become a shadow; and with all its seriousness we may say a sportful shadow, a mere play of the Fancy, in comparison with that awful Fact and scientific certainty, which it poetically strives to emblem. |
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| | allegory - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about allegory |
| | Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene, besides being a chivalric romance, is a commentary on morals and manners in 16th-century England as well as a national epic. | | | allegory, in literature, symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface. | | | Here, beneath the painted ceiling, with foreshortened Allegory staring down at his intrusion as if it meant to swoop upon him, and he cutting it dead, Mr. |
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| | Sinding Paper |
| | Dante's allegory relies on the Christian mythology that has already mapped out the universe as a scale from hell and damnation at the bottom up to heaven and salvation at the top, and populated it with resident spirits and souls of the dead. | | | Steiner says "Kafka composes a body of parables, of allegories, of commentaries in motion, whose aura is, technically and substantively, that of the sacred" (Steiner xvi). | | | So the ontological status of the mapping is uncertain, as it is not in canonical allegories (where it's at least true in the dream that there are seven people who are the sins and have their names). |
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| | Participatory Bible Study - Interpreting Allegory |
| | There is a single theme, God seeking the lost which is illustrated through an ordinary experience, the loss of a coin. | | | He doesn't refer to many other elements of the story, such as Abraham's role, God's protection of Hagar and his promise concerning Ishmael, or Sarah's role in throwing Ishmael and Hagar out of the house. | | | The following story, that of the prodigal son, is still considered a parable, but it adds a few more elements, and is closer to an allegory. |
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| | Medievalism & Allegory |
| | Powys's use of allegory clearly owes much to the great medieval allegorical tradition (Dante, Langland, the morality play, Spenser, John Bunyan and Ben Jonson), but his fiction is not written according to any particular allegorical model, nor should the reader approach it with anything like a four-level scheme in mind. | | | Consequently, we should not be surprised to find allegory at work in modern and postmodern literature as well, for instance, in Kafka, Joyce, Beckett, and Pynchon. | | | - that allegory is a kind of double-talk in which there is or ought to be a point-to-point compulsive relation between the narrative and the symbolic level or between concretion and abstraction; this is, no doubt, true of naive or frigid allegory, but not of the great allegories of the past or present; |
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| | allegory -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | A measure of allegory is present in literature... | | | Well-known examples of the dream allegory include the first part of Roman de la rose (13th century); Chaucer's Book... | | | Includes information on the allegories implicit in the books, little-known poetry about Narnia, timelines, and stories related to Narnia. |
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| | Christian Allegory in the 17th Century: A Comparison of George Herbert and John Bunyan |
| | This understandable popularity of allegory as a literary form spread through the Renaissance with Dante and Spenser and into the seventeenth century. | | | Although he was neither an intellectual nor a literary genius, in his allegories Bunyan has excelled where none of his contemporaries, including Herbert, succeeded. | | | His use of dialogue between the abstractions and personified characters is vital to his work. |
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| | The UVic Writer's Guide: Allegory |
| | The allegory of ideas is particularly common in medieval literature, as in Dante's Divine Comedy (1307-21), in which Dante the pilgrim represents a common person seeking salvation, both helped and hindered by his reliance upon Reason (in the person of Virgil) rather than Faith. | | | Allegory may be sustained throughout a work (as in the medieval morality play) or comprise an episode in literature of any genre. | | | the allegory of ideas, in which characters personify abstract concepts and the story has a didactic purpose. |
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| | Bernard of Morlaix - ALLEGORY |
| | Interpretive allegory in Scriptural exegesis is not specifically Christian. | | | The allegory of the twelfth century had roots in classical antiquity and in the Scriptures. | | | Most of the allegory is concentrated in the first two books, which deal with the arrangements for the wedding of Mercury and Philology, and the apotheosis of Philology. |
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| | Allegory - LitWiki |
| | Allegory was most prominent in the Middle Ages, with dream vision and the morality play; other types of allegory common in history are the fable, the parable, and the exemplum. | | | Allegory attempts to create interest both in the primary story with its characters, events, and setting, and in the ideas and significance the story conveys. | | | A symbol carries a natural relationship to the events of the story; in allegory, the surface story is often a thinly disguised courier for the secondary meaning. |
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| | Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey |
| | For him, the movie is a triple allegory, three allegories (metaphorically or symbolically told hidden stories) combined in one surface story. | | | This allegory, the main one, again deals with evolution, so it shares considerable symbolism with the with the second allegory. | | | The author also explains the surface story and the meaning of the four monoliths. |
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| | EDSITEment - Lesson Plan |
| | While allegories across all media and genres are related, they are not all exactly the same. | | | As students may be more familiar with literary allegory, ask them to mention some examples in literature. | | | For example, the Statue of Liberty is a statue that literally depicts a woman wearing a crown and carrying a torch; allegorically, the statue represents the concept of "liberty." |
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| | Glossary of Literary Terms |
| | Allegories are written in the form of fables, parables, poems, stories, and almost any other style or genre. | | | One well-known example of an allegory is Dante’s The Divine Comedy. | | | In Inferno, Dante is on a pilgrimage to try to understand his own life, but his character also represents every man who is in search of his purpose in the world (Merriam Webster Encyclopedia of Literature). |
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| | Dorothy's Progress: The Wizard of Oz as Spiritual Allegory by David F. Godwin published by Fate Magazine 2000-04-01 |
| | For example, it would be easy to say that Dorothy and her companions are allegories of the four elements, the four evangelists, or the four cardinal virtues. | | | In another, Toto is an allegory of Anubis, the dog-headed Egyptian guide of the dead. | | | Samuel Bousky, in The Wizard of Oz Revealed, goes into some detail applying detailed esoteric allegories, such as relating the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion to the three friends of Job. |
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| | Plato's Allegory Of The Cave |
| | In "Allegory of The Cave," Plato goes on to present the hypothesis that one of the prisoners (who he often referred to as the philosopher or intellectual) would eventually be released or escape from his chains and flee the cave. | | | As Trinity tell Neo, "The Matrix can not tell you who you are." By being courageous enough to turn around and take the red pill, we, just like Neo and the Freed Man, are making the first step towards personal independence. | | | As Plato goes on to later explain, "the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images." |
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| | Plato FAQ: the allegory of the cave |
| | Another one, by Paul Shorey, that has to be loaded one Stephanus page at a time, at the Perseus site, at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=plat.+rep.+514a (also available in print in the Vth and VIth volumes of the complete works of Plato, Greek text and English translation, in the Loeb edition published by Harvard University Press). | | | The Stephanus references (the universal way of quoting Plato, available in all editions of his works) for the section telling the allegory are Republic, VII, 514a-517a. | | | It is a story of men chained in a cave only able to see their own shadows and delude into thinking that this was all there was to reality." |
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| | Dictionary of the History of Ideas |
| | physical allegory of the origins of the plague in the | | | their pagan attributes are assimilated by allegory to | | | history of allegory, in that his attack upon Homeric |
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| | Allegory --- Love to Learn Place.com |
| | An allegorical story is not meant to be realistic, but has a dreamlike or magical quality, which explains why many allegories begin with the author falling asleep. | | | Allegory and the Bible PDF File — Print it off !! | | | Everyman (medieval morality play), personified the abstractions of Fellowship and Good Deeds |
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| | allegory - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Allegory : Glossary of Literary Terms [home, info] | | | Allegory : Glossary of English Grammar Terms [home, info] | | | allegory : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] |
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| | In Renaissance allegory it is an attribute of Hearing, one of the five senses, and of Prudence, one of the cardinal virtues. | | | In Italian Renaissance allegory it is an attribute of Night personified. | | | It is an attribute of Fu Hsing, one of the gods of happiness. |
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| | [ Daily Tolkien ] J.R.R.TOLKIEN, CATHOLICISM AND THE USE OF ALLEGORY |
| | Elsewhere he states "I am a Christian (which can be deduced from my stories), and in fact a Roman Catholic" (ibid.). | | | This is a story that exists for itself. | | | Tolkien did not actually much care for The Narnian Chronicles for this very reason. |
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| | Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" |
| | The Allegory of the Cave can be found in Book VII of Plato's best-known work, The Republic, a lengthy dialogue on the nature of justice. | | | His writings are in the form of dialogues, with Socrates as the principal speaker. | | | In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. |
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| | allegory |
| | The most obvious use of allegory is work-length narratives such as the medieval Everyman or Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. | | | A sustained metaphor continued through whole sentences or even through a whole discourse. | | | Allegory also occurs when an allusion is made with no introductory explanation and the speaker trusts the audience to make the connection, as in the following example, where reference is made to the historic landing of a craft on the moon, but no direct connection is made to the more mundane application of this allusion: |
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| | 20th WCP: Spelunking with Socrates: A Study of Socratic Pedagogy in Plato's Republic |
| | Glaucon merely has to understand what the allegory symbolizes to reap the benefits of its meaning. | | | That we know the subject matter of Socrates' analogy tells us nothing of whether Socrates means the allegory to be genuine or ironic. | | | Reasoning by analogy, Socrates exposes Glaucon to the truth—the real world that is outside the cave and illumined by the sun. |
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| | ArtLex on Allegory |
| | Allegory of Rome, from De Secundo Bello Punico Poema by Silius Italicus, 1447-1457, | | | This still life might be interpreted as either an allegory of the five senses or of the sacred and the profane. | | | Allegory of Salvation with the Virgin, the Christ Child, Saint Elizabeth, the Young Saint John, and Two Angels, c 1521, oil on panel, 63 1/2 x 47 inches (161.3 x 119.4 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
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| | Michael Maier - A Subtle Allegory |
| | This allegory was included in Book 12 of Maier's Symbola aureæ mensæ duodecim nationum... | | | If you have problems understanding these alchemical texts, Adam McLean now provides a study course entitled How to read alchemical texts : a guide for the perplexed. |
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| | Medieval Allegory |
| | Thus, allegory evokes a dual interest: in the events, characters and setting presented; and in the ideas they represent or the significance they bear. | | | talking animals, as in the Nun's Priest's Tale) does not consitute allegory in and of itself. | | | Allegory is frequently, but not always, concerned with matters of great import: life and death; damnation and salvation; social or personal morality and immorality. |
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| | Allegory (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | In Galatians, the apostle Paul is referring to the history of Isaac the freeborn, and Ishmael the slave-born, and makes use of it allegorically. | | | The word "allegory" does not appear in the New King James Version (NKJV) or the New Internaional Version (NIV). | | | The word "allegory" is used only once in the King James Bible and the New Revised Standard Version (Gal. |
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| | Allegory: Time or Space? Home |
| | Allegories have been illustrated in manuscripts and books as well as in independent works of art. | | | Allegory and the New: The Urban Poetics of Poe and Baudelaire | | | Allegory and the Image: Language in the Void of Difference |
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| | Plato's Allegory of the Cave |
| | This allegory has inspired my own research since it discloses a most exciting and mystical process that prepares and awakens man to his true destiny. | | | This excerpt from Plato’s Republic, Book 7: "Allegory of the Cave" conveys his wise observations and philosophy on the human condition. | | | Moreover, I said, you must not wonder that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory may be trusted. |
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| | The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan |
| | In the allegory, Bunyan relates essentially his own personal testimony of sin, hope, and faith. | | | Bunyan's crime was his refusal to take a license from the government in order to preach the Gospel. | | | While the story is easy to follow and to understand, The Pilgrim's Progress is very deep theologically. |
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| | Allegory |
| | The works we will read are drawn from several different historical periods from the Middle Ages to the present day and reflect several different types and uses of allegory. | | | These goals are to acquaint students with a number of allegorical works from the spectrum of Western literature, to provide students with a general understanding of the allegorical tradition, and, more generally, to help students to further develop their abilities to read, appreciate, and explicate literature. | | | Class lectures and discussions will focus on ways of understanding and interpreting the works and on locating them in their historical, cultural, and intellectual milieus. |
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| | Definition of allegory - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | Etymology: Middle English allegorie, from Latin allegoria, from Greek allEgoria, from allEgorein to speak figuratively, from allos other + -Egorein to speak publicly, from agora assembly -- more at | | | Now you can take the Eleventh Edition with you anywhere as Franklin's new Speaking Electronic Handheld! | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "allegory" |
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| | Plato: The Allegory of the Cave |
| | What does the sun symbolize in the allegory? | | | Moreover, I said, you must not wonder that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory may be trusted. | | | The importance of the allegory lies in Plato's belief that there are invisible truths lying under the apparent surface of things which only the most enlightened can grasp. |
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| | Allegory: Holy Bible is allegoric - Godshew.org |
| | The word "allegory" is used in the Holy Bible | | | (allegory: cast out the law and the result of the law: sin and death) | | | Sadly the word allegory doesn't appear in the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible, which uses "symbolic" instead. |
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| | allegory definition |
| | Allegory is perhaps characterized as (a set of) prolonged metaphor(s), in which typically a series of actions are symbolic of other actions. | | | Allegory is therefore the veiled presentation in a figurative story of a meaning metaphorically implied, but not expressly stated. |
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| | Allegory |
| | A novel of romance, adversity, death and conflict, Love, Hope and the Tyranny Wars truly has it all. | | | *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Allegory is a webring dedicated to writers of allegorical fiction, non-fiction and poetry. | | | It is both an enthralling science-fiction novel and a profound set of historical allegories. |
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| | What is an allegory? |
| | This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003. | | | An allegory is an extended metaphor, especially a story in which fictional characters and actions are used to understand and express aspects of concepts relating to human existence. |
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| | ANIMAL FARM Guide: Literary Elements - Allegory |
| | They could also be symbols for tyranny more broadly: their qualities are therefore not simply the historical characteristics of a set of actual men but are the qualities of all leaders who rely on repression and manipulation. | | | The production does not merely emphasize the historical allegory but also calls attention to other allegorical possibilities. | | | Yet there is no reason that allegory must be limited to two levels. |
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| | AskOxford: allegory |
| | allegories) a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. |
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| | Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Matrix and language manipulation |
| | Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to | | | (an illustrated allegory presenting an in-depth analysis of the alien intervention on Earth, including the alien technique of human mimicry used by aliens living on Earth masquerading as humans to operate inside the "visible world"). | | | where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory may be trusted". |
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| | Allegory of the Cave |
| | The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this. | | | Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. | | | In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. |
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