Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication by Élisabeth Plas

“…The extraordinary encounter of a French soldier and a panther during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt questions the contemporary thesis on domestication, creates an allegory of practical and fantasmatic relationships between colonizers and indigenous, while inventing other possible and alternative relationships between animals and men.…”
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Prediking uit die Ou Testament by J. Janse van Rensburg

“…Besides the danger of moralism, allegory and typology, there is the problem of preaching Christ from the Old Testament. …”
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Motyw zwierzęcy w twórczości językowej dzieci by Anna Wasilewska

“…An animal theme is used by child authors the same way as in a fairy tale – as an allegory of social situations or as a vivid symbol of ambivalent feelings and difficult experiences, just as it is in fairy tales. …”
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Antropología y radicalidad literaria. Zola, Warburg, Artaud, Debord, Pasolini by José Antonio González Alcantud

“…The author leaves the text open, without closing in the manner of Bourdieu, to reflect on exoticism, allegory and fantasy. Always under the condition of writing as an act of power and counter-power. …”
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Les espaces du graffiti dans les capitales touristiques : l’exemple de Paris et Berlin by Julie Vaslin

“…Considered alternately as an allegory of disorder or as an emblem of alternative tourism, graffiti appears as a very good indicator of these processes.…”
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Caliban’s Cave: Theatre’s Scandalous Ethics by Liza Kharoubi

“…Turning the Platonic allegory inside out, I envision Theatre as Caliban’s Cave rather than Prospero’s cell, giving precedence to the slave over the master, to the poetry of shadow over luminescent power. …”
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Obrazy války v italských městech v kázáních observanta a v cestovním deníku řeholníka z první poloviny 15. století by Jan Stejskal

“…The fresco depicting an allegory of good and bad government, which decorates the Siena town hall, unambiguously associates war and the related devastation with bad government. …”
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Dynamitage cocasse de l’anthropomorphisme dans quelques satires contemporaines by Laetitia Pasquet

“…This shift paves the way for a new scenic and verbal representation of animals in the poetic wild, liberated from the chains of meaningful clarity and allegory. The satirical prism is thus replaced by an uncanny, awkward form of comedy that no longer claims to convey a meaning and cause spectators to smile reassuringly, for spectators are no longer at the top of God’s creation. …”
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Sword of heaven by Richard Wilson

“…It was Middleton’s tampering with Shakespeare’s text that transformed it from a drama of demonic substitution, focused on the ‘outward-sainted deputy’ [3.1.93] into an allegory of divine sovereignty, idealizing the monarch as a deus ex machina. …”
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Sword of Heaven : Political Theology in Measure for Measure by Richard Wilson

“…It was Middleton’s tampering with Shakespeare’s text that transformed it from a drama of demonic substitution, focused on the ‘outward-sainted deputy’ [3.1.93] into an allegory of divine sovereignty, idealizing the monarch as a deus ex machina. …”
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THE STRENGTH BEHIND GROWTH: EXPLORING METAPHORS IN PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR’S POEM, THE SEEDLING by Fitriyah Fitriyah, Aisyah Ahzahra Suroso, Arvina Septa Maharani

“…The metaphors used in Paul Laurence Dunbar's 'The Seedling' speak to the stages of human improvement, utilizing characteristic pictures such as seeds, roots, daylight, and rain. Each allegory is utilized to portray desires, dreams, trusts, and the plausibility of developing into a grown up in spite of having to overcome numerous challenges. …”
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La peur dans The City of Dreadful Night (1874) de James Thomson by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…It offers a despairing allegory of the « hell of modernity ». And in this doomed world, the most frightening thing is not so much death as life...…”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…Focusing on pragmatic, political stakes of Victorian animal allegory I unveil in the Alice tales references to Carroll’s support of animal rights, including his anti-vivisectionist commitment explicitly spelt out in his pamphlets and gaining fictional manifestations in his seemingly apolitical fantasies.…”
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Making the Past Audible: The Childlike Element and Renewal of Existence in Benjamin and Woolf by Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio

“…This analysis is extended to Virginia Woolf in terms of reading acoustic anteriority as a form of language renaissance in To the Lighthouse, whereby through a radical infra-lyrical turn, words are heard anew in their oldness at a dialectical moment of danger. This allegory of renaissance is also a foundational paradigm in “Anon.” …”
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Dramatic and Cinematic Potentials of the Fifth Dome in Nizami's Haft Peykar by Heydar Ali Dahmarde, Hojat Raeisi

“…An exemplary instance of adaptation characterized by imagination and allegory is Nezami's Haft Peykar. Given the allure that works featuring elements of imagination, allegory, and symbolism hold for adaptation in visual arts, particularly in cinema, this study aims to explore the potential for theatrical and cinematic adaptation within the framework of Nezami's Haft Peykar, focusing specifically on its ‘Fifth Dome’. …”
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POSITIONING TRANG’S STORIES IN THE NARRATIVE GENRE OF VIETNAMESE FOLKLORE by Nguyễn Ngọc Chiến

“…Through the difference of the Trang’s stories, we want to consider the genre of Trang’s stories in comparison with the categories of fairy tales, allegories, and jokes. Especially, in this article, we outline the development of Trang’s stories of Vietnamese folklore. …”
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Open Your Eyes Wider: Overexposure in Contemporary American Film and TV Series by Monica Michlin

“…Finally, although as a technique, it plays on the hypnotic attractions of excessive light, it also points to the artifice of lighting and acts as a reflexive sign that what we are gazing upon is unreal, in a contemporary enactment of the baroque allegories of life-as-dream.…”
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The postfigurative Christ in Morley Callaghan's Such is my beloved by F. Hale

“… Symbolic Christ figures, i.e. characters whose lives to greatly varying extents mirror those of Jesus of Nazareth without being fully fledged allegories thereof, were frequently employed as fictional devices in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature as means of expressing diverse qualities, lessons, mores, and values in the modern world. …”
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Poética de uma conversão neorromântica: o erotismo religioso de Murilo Mendes by Robson Coelho Tinoco

“…In this poetics, the woman is especially defined between images and allegories built on a thematic basis on which the catholic altar and its multiple meanings (printed on dogmatic faith) complete itself in the curvilinear design of feminine forms (printed on the physical desire). …”
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Ackee and saltfish vs. amalá con quimbombó? A note on Sidney Mintz’ contribution to the historical anthropology of African American cultures by Stephan Palmié

“…In the spirit of Sidney Mintz’ contribution to African American historical anthropology, this essay examines theories allocating differential explanatory weight to African cultural continuities and New World social conditions in the historical development of African American cultures through the lens of a set of culinary allegories built around two Caribbean dishes. Specifically, I argue that the opposition recently voiced by some Africanist historians against the so-called « rapid early synthesis » model developed by Sidney Mintz and Richard Price not just misinterprets the theoretical issues at hand, but foregrounds highly problematic, and ultimately ahistorical, notions of « Africanity ». …”
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