Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

“…The article shows that Kurt Vonnegut in his anti-war postmodernist novel Slaughterhouse-Five manages to create a double code that allows to deconstruct John Bunyan’s important allegorical work The Pilgrim’s Progress, which at one time was an effective means of Protestant religious propaganda, and at the same time to urge readers to return to Christian humanism. …”
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A study of persuasive methods in Indian-style sonnets based on Logos theory with an emphasis on Sāeb's poetry by Jalal Abbasi, Mohammad Ahi

“…For this reason, they have used many methods and techniques.Using rhetorical techniques with argumentative and allegorical backgrounds is one of these methods. These methods have established a logical-artistic discourse in the poetry of this period. …”
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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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Alegorías, metáforas y símbolos en el cine sobre la Revolución mexicana by Alvaro Vázquez Mantecón

“…This work intends to analyze the way Mexican cinema has built allegoric images of the Mexican Revolution through sequences or key scenes which, far from being a collection of official images, show the complexity of the Mexican filmmakers’ vision of the Revolution. …”
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Autoproiecţie şi univers ficţional în „Istoria ieroglifică” by Simona Antofi

“…Focused on as a representative text whose semantic and structural complexity still points out its contemporary outstanding place within the critical discourse and the diachronic dynamics of the literary forms, Istoria ieroglifică depicts an authorial discourse rooted in the self-projective compensatory power of geniality as well as an allegorically encoded image of the world. From this double perspective, our study approaches the fictional mechanisms which textually generate the construction of a unique authorial image as well as of a multi-faceted complex discourse. …”
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The Writing of “Dreck”: Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White by Rachele Dini

“…Going against established modes of allegorizing the theme of waste in Barthelme’s work, I suggest the fruitfulness of a literal reading, and propose that his waste objects are framed as inevitable outcomes of a successful advertising campaign. …”
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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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“The World is Cursed”: Studio Ghibli’s Radical Environmental Philosophy by Claire Patzner

“…In contrast to American major animation studios who may only touch upon these issues thematically or allegorically to appeal to the masses, the Japanese filmmakers at Studio Ghibli are unafraid to continuously and directly depict war and human greed. …”
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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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The study of Ironic meaning formation in the conceptual fusion of the allegory of “Inadmissibility of indecent interpretation of the housefly” in spiritual Masnavi, based on the th... by Sima Rahimi, Hasan Zolfaghari, Nasrin Faghih Malek Marzban, Hosienali Ghobadi

“…The influence of this transference of meaning is due to his special method of allegorization and his creative mental processes in choosing the conventional spaces to point out the unconventional purpose, the mechanism of blending dual spaces and providing meaning from the heart of this fusion. …”
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