« Amongst the Gods I Psyche will translate »: la réécriture par Thomas Shadwell de la tragédie-ballet Psyché (1671) de Molière, Corneille et Quinault by Pierre Degott

“…If Shadwell’s play can be read as an allegory of the political situation of the Restoration, this article attempts to show that the English Psyche, boldly subtitled “The English Opera” by the musician Matthew Locke in his edition of the work, can also be seen as an allegorical representation of the operatic world itself. …”
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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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Ulysse à la dérive : de déviations en faux-fuyants, un itinéraire élisabéthain by Charlotte Coffin

“…This article offers a survey of a variety of texts and genres, in order to show how both allegorical interpretations and rhetorical exploitations of the myth tend to erase ambivalence, whereas Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida fully explores its suggestions of  the dangerous power of eloquence.…”
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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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Jedermann de Hugo von Hofmannsthal et de Felix Mitterer by Diane de Wrangel

“…This theatrical work is based on an English morality dating back to the end of the 15th century, and it features allegorical characters as if in a Dance of Death. It contains a timeless principle that provides the basis for rewritings, as Ein Jedermann (1991) by Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer shows. …”
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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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Autour de Christine de Pizan : entre lyrisme courtois et engagement politique by Claire-Marie Schertz

“…Each of them belongs to a different literary genre (lyric poetry, allegorical poetry, epistolary genre and didactic treatise). …”
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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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National Allegory in Teju Cole’s Open City by Derek F. DiMatteo

“…Drawing on the work of Fredric Jameson, I read Julius’s amnesia-like repression of his past crimes as allegorical of his adopted nation, the USA, which tends to forget its responsibility for its own historical injustices. …”
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Processus de (re)territorialisation de l’héritage colonial by Romeo Carabelli

“…This text presents two successful cases of urban development supported by a strong presence of built inheritance, which has led to the creation of places of memory with an almost allegorical role. The first part of the text questions the inevitability of referencing a mythical space regarding Palmyra and the sequence of events that took place there. …”
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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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Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…Lang used Dietrich in the film to comment on aspects of modernity and, at the same time, to offer an allegorical reading of American nationalism of the McCarthy era. …”
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Les vitraux de l’École de Pharmacie de Paris by Françoise Gatouillat

“…In 1884, the parisian glazier delivered four windows with historical subjects related to the institution, which took place in the two stairways, and in 1888 an allegorical stained-glass for the main hall, now removed. …”
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Re-envisioning Astraea: Myth and Vision in Jeremy Bentham’s “Blackstone Familiarized” by Claire Wrobel

“…After analysing the processes used to transcribe the vision by drawing on the “visual turn” recently taken in the field of law and literature, the article shows how Bentham’s rewriting leads us to reconsider the ideological functions of myth and seeks to account for the unexpected appearance of another allegorical figure, namely the goddess of fiction.…”
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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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