The Whaleness of the Whale: Interspecies Relationality in Moby-Dick and In The Heart of the Sea by Svetlana Seibel

“…Herman Melville’s enigmatic white whale Moby Dick is undoubtedly one of the most famous characters of American literature. His symbolic and allegorical potential, especially as manifested in his “whiteness,” has been given extensive scholarly attention; much less frequently is the personhood of the whale—what I call his whaleness—accorded a sustained discussion. …”
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O espaço é a flor azul do imaginário: Gaston Bachelard e Walter Benjamin em Paris – a descoberta de uma paisagem literária by Valéria Cristina Pereira da Silva, Carlos Fonseca Clamote Carreto

“…Benjamin (1892-1940) that relate to the city of Paris and the way they lived in the city and wrote about it. In an allegorical and phenomenological way, we took the image of the blue flower, as a symbol of the space in the philosophy of the imagination and the imaginary, as well as the survival of the romanticism that belongs to both philosophers. …”
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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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Using Animal Retribution Fiction for the Promotion of Environmental Awareness: the Case for a Reinterpretation of Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" by Xavier LACHAZETTE

“…Another powerful image is to be found in Daphne Du Maurier's allegorical novella "The Birds" (1952), which focuses on a small Cornish community's fight for survival when organised hosts of winged creatures take to killing humans in the wake of a sudden climate change. …”
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An Expansive View of the Influence of Khidr’s Divine Knowledge for Humanity by Madison Bohacek

“…This book focuses on glorifying Allah, acquiring knowledge, and acting rightly by delving into the theological, historical, cross-cultural, mythical, and allegorical aspects of this story. Dr. Omar examines how the symbols of Khidr have spread throughout history and various cultures, explaining the emergence of Khidr-like characters within and outside Islam. …”
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A Critique on the Book Methodology of Islamic Humanities by Mohmmad Reza Qaemi Nik

“…In this book, in the first three chapters (analysis of concepts and introductory points, counter-method theory, and research questions), he describes the generalities of his view, and in the fourth to fourteenth chapters, seven methods of Islamic humanities, ie definition, description, explanation (and characteristics of explanatory methodology), reasoning (deductive, inductive and allegorical), interpretation (and methodological features of interpretation), prediction and evaluation. …”
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Pseudo-disbelief Allegories in the Works of Ein al-Qozat Hamedani (with Emphasizing on Letters and Arrangements) by Ahmad Amin, Ali Mohammadi Asiabadi, Seyyede kowsar Rohban

“…But it is worth noting that sometimes the judge makes a certain statement of the allegory that, in addition to the apparent level of the word, we are faced with a paradoxical and contradictory structure at the spiritual level. This form of allegorical expression, which brings to mind the structures of Pseudo-disbelief in the language, can be called "Shathi allegories". …”
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Powrót do ruin. O atrakcyjności niemieckiego powojnia by Jakub Gortat

“…Emphasis is placed on the allegorical and metaphorical significance of the ruins and their hidden meanings. …”
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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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Sanai's spiritual travelogue Seyr al-Ibad by Halilović Tehran

“…The reason for this interest is the similarity of Sanai's allegorical story with other world literary works such as Dante's Divine Comedy, Ma'arri's Risala al-Ghufran and the story of the heavenly journey of Prophet Muhammad, i.e. the story of mi'raj. …”
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Louis-Patrick Bergot, Apocalypse et littérature au Moyen Âge. Réception de l’imaginaire apocalyptique dans la littérature française des xiie et xiiie siècles by Louis-Patrick Bergot

“…Several parts of medieval literature resort to this imaginary, whether it be visionary literature (with The Vision of Tondale and The Purgatory of Saint Patrick), allegorical literature (in The Tournament of the Antichrist and The Romance of the Rose) or didactic and religious literature (in La Somme le roi, the sermons or the stuffed epistles). …”
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Imaginative Allusion Compounds Inspired by Verses, Traditions and mythology in Khaghaniʼs Odes by محمد بهنام‌فر, زینب طلایی

“…He used more than the verses from the Quran and in most of the cases it utilizes the allegorical and borrowed words, combinations, and interpretations are part of the verse. …”
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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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The Stylistics of Attār's The Conference of the Birds based on Halliday's Functional Linguistics by Khadijeh Bahrami Rahnama

“…It is also one of the literary and rhetorical tools which can best help to explain the symbolic and allegorical language as well as the complex concepts of a poet-mystic such as Farid-Al- Din Attār Nishābūrī. …”
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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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