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Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls' (Medieval Women Texts and Contexts)
Suzanne Kocher

Brepols Publishers, 2008

Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, dating probably to the 1290s, is the oldest known mystical work written in French, and the only surviving medieval text by a woman writer executed as a heretic. This volume analyses its use of interconnected allegories that describe the soul's approach toward God in terms of human social relationships. These include romantic love between lovers in same-sex and mixed-sex pairs, relations among people of ...

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (Oxford Paperbacks)

4 reviews
C. S. Lewis

Oxford University Press, USA, 1985

Ian Myles Slater on A Critical Masterpiece
This is the book which made C.S. Lewis' reputation as a critic of medieval and renaissance literature; in the original, medieval, sense, it was the "piece" that marked his transition from Apprentice to Master. It was first published in 1936, and has been reprinted many times. (I have 1960s copies of Oxford's 1958 "Galaxy Book" paperback edition; the cover of the recent Oxford Paperback is a great ...

Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties

1 review
David E. James

Princeton Univ Pr, 1989

Allegories of Cinema
A history of American cinema in the 1960s. It focuses on the avant garde, experimental scene -- Brakhage, Warhol et al.

Symbols and Allegories in Art (Guide to Imagery Series)

2 reviews
Matilde Battistini

Getty Publications, 2005

A Valuable Guide to Understanding References in Paintings
SYMBOLS AND ALLEGORIES IN ART was originally published in Italian by author Mathilde Battistini and is here resubmitted to the art loving public in a translated version courtesy of the Getty Foundation. The book is visually stunning and informative and offers a very handy reference volume for the museum visitor as well as the artist in understanding the derivation of symbols and myths and ...

The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention
Catherine Gimelli Martin

Duke University Press, 1998

In this reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of Paradise Lost , Catherine Martin presents Milton?s poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another. She argues that rather than merely extending the allegorical tradition as defined by Augustine, Dante, and Spenser, Milton has written a meta-allegory that stages a confrontation with an allegorical formalism that is either dead or no longer ...

Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

5 reviews
Paul de Man

Yale University Press, 1982

Semantic is complex
One of the best analyses upon the metaphor subject. The chapter about the Marcel Proust metaphors is pure light. Do not lose it!

Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust

16 reviews
Eve Bunting

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1989

Review Terrible Things
This book tells about how the Holocaust could happen. So many times when things go wrong or don't look right, people have a tendancy to look the other way, not get involved, or "I better not help as I may have a problem too." In this book the different animals are removed one by one by the "terrible things." Everyone looks the other way- the only one to question why is a little rabbit and he is ...

Allegory and the Migration of Symbols (Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower)

1 review
Rudolf Wittkower

Thames & Hudson, 1987

Well Researched
This book has a taxonomy of sets of similar symbols with which the history of their locations, uses, and meanings can be put together to see the whole. Well researched and written/translated. Not a dictionary of symbols with definitions, or even an encyclopedia - more like a collection of specific histories.

The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (Distributed for British Film Institute)

1 review
Tom Gunning

British Film Institute, 2000

Great book on Lang
Occasionally quirky and idiosyncratic, this rich and thought-provoking book uses wide variety of sources and methodologies to analyse the work of one of the true geniuses of cinema. Recomended to all students of cinema.

Douglas Gordon's Vanity Of Allegory
Alison Gingeras, Francis Mckee, ...

Guggenheim Museum, 2005

Douglas Gordon is an inveterate storyteller. The fictions that he weaves extends outward from the objects of his art--film, video, sound installations, photographs, and text works--to encompass his own artistic persona. Douglas Gordon's Vanity of Allegory, an exhibition conceived specifically for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, explores the notion of the veiled self-portrait as an art-historical trope, a literary device, and a cinematic ...

Tales of The Soil: A Collection of Inspirational Allegories

4 reviews
Nancy Iankowitz

AuthorHouse, 2005

a book that gets better each time you read it
TALES of THE SOIL by NEC Iankowitz is a book to be read and discussed at least twice.Is it a child's fable, or a more serious text? The author attempts to interact with the reader, challenging us to read between the lines to the meanings below the surface. Reminiscent of the Gullivers Travels story, which can be understood on more than one level. From a fairy tale like beginning a story ...

A Guided Tour of Five Works by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Death Scene), Allegory of the Cave

2 reviews
Christopher Biffle

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2000

Best Plato Textbook is a Superb Teaching Tool
The book is an excellent teaching tool for undergraduate and graduate level Philosophy courses. This text would be the only one I would use at the high school level (and Plato should be taught in GATE and AP type English classes, as he was back in the "good old days" when the goal of academic 'arete' had real importance in lesson planning). The book includes the dialogues surrounding the trial ...

Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire
Thomas J. Scanlan

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. Unlike most other studies of the subject, it suggests that colonialism is best understood as a phenomenon that had profound significance for people on both sides ...

Myth, Allegory, and Gospel: An Interpretation of JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, Chas Williams

2 reviews
John Warwick Montgomery

Bethany House, 1974

The spiritual significance of myth via The Inklings writings
If you are a "fan" of the fantasy books by Tolkien, C.S.Lewis, Charles Williams or Chesterton, then this is a book worth reading. It is a collection of essays by various authorities in literature, myth and theology. A couple of the contributors were acquainted with either Tolkien or Lewis. The central thesis running through this collection of essays is that mythic symbols found in folk-tales and ...

The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre
Maureen Quilligan

Cornell Univ Pr, 1992

"Quilligan has a number of stimulating new insights into the nature of allegory both medieval and modern. Much of her discussion focuses on The Faerie Queen and Piers Plowman, but she does not neglect Hawthorne and Melville, while Nabokov and Pynchon receive two particularly astute readings. Along with valuable literary criticism, this book gives us an idea of a whole new revival of the theory of allegory."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Allegory (Critical Idiom)

1 review
John Macqueen

Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1970

A good small survey
The chapters of this book are: 1)Green and Roman Allegory 2) Biblical Allegory 3) Allegory and the Course of Time 4) Medieval Theories of Allegory 5) Allegory and the Individual 6) Allegory and Satire. MacQueen points out that Allegory has its origin in Religious Writing and only later becomes important in Literature proper. He provides important insights into the way Allegory develops in ...

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