... Hollywood representation of 9/11 and the war on terror was characterised by forms of allegory—“allegory lite”—which allowed film-makers to produce risk-averse engagements with contemporary events which generally steered clear of the alarming questions raised by September 11 and the neoconservative response...

...This book is a study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US. It examines writers working at the hazy borders between aesthetic project and political allegory, with specific attention being paid to Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene...

... ‘The Rhetoric of Fiction’, Roman Jakobson's ‘Linguistics and the Study of Literature’, and Walter Benjamin's ‘Allegory and Tragedy’. Blanchot Maurice Deleuze Gilles Friedrich Hugo Frye Northrop Gadamer Hans Georg Hartman Geoffrey Hassan Ihab Kermode Frank Levin Harry Olson Charles Plato Poggioli...

... motif in Mansfield’s oeuvre, ‘How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped’ can also be read as an elaboration of the trope of national allegory. In proposing that individual destiny can be read as an allegory of a whole society, I draw, for a working hypothesis, on Jameson’s foundational article, ‘Third-World...

... the tale as the basis for an allegory about race relations in Australia. The chapter argues that the film can be understood as a commentary on the national apology the Australian Prime Minister made to the Indigenous peoples of Australia. Kafka Franz Proust Marcel psychoanalysis sex Jameson Fredric...

...De Man's chapter on Julie in Allegories of Reading is a brilliant interpretation of the problem of ‘passion’ as a point of superposition of epistemology and ethics that forms the objective and the crucial interest of the philosophical novel. This chapter attempts...

... interpretation of the genre, and exploring whether Gothic texts can be said to produce ‘allegories’ of the human experience, or particular historical moments. The chapter then moves on to looking at the use of allegory in eighteenth century Irish writing as a context for understanding certain allegorising trends...

... and concepts underpinning the analysis in the book: allegory, metonymy, biopolitics and assemblage. Yorgos Zois’s celebrated short film Casus Belli (2010) is used as a case study. Alps Alpeis Attenberg distribution film Dogtooth Kynodontas Economides Yannis film festivals their role...

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... to solve the problems of their unexceptional lifeworlds; his later films turn to allegory through symbolically-charged figures speaking long philosophical lines to grapple the truth. Üç Maymun/Three Monkeys (2008) stands somewhere in the middle wherein the attempt at dialogue between...

...Against a persistent image of Anna Letitia Barbauld as a paragon of feminine propriety, and, as some of her male contemporaries would have it, passionless and sexually frigid, William McCarthy has argued that her minor prose piece ‘Allegory on Sleep’ recognises young women’s inclinations towards...

... creature on a sacred, forbidding all-male space’. allegory Cosgrove Denis E on landscape gender Greece Harrison Jane Ellen landscape Mount Athos pastoral poetry space time tradition transformation vision atheism death life religion women Woolf Virginia writings ambition fame georgic...

...Garrard explores the idea and practice of zoophilia in recent legal and cultural discourses, with particular attention to relevant literary texts and films. He reads representations of animals in human sexual contexts not as allegories but as reflections upon interspecies sexuality, tracking...

...Chapter Eleven, ""Daddy, I'm scared. Can we go home?": Fear and Allegory in Frank Darabont’s The Mist (2007), Terence McSweeney addresses the potency of the horror genre to function as a cultural barometer by engaging with some of the defining anxieties of the era in a metaphorical fashion...

... of Tomorrow is worthy of critical reappraisal and analysis. 9 11 11 September 2001 Cold War the United 93 2006 World Trade Center cultural trauma Cruise Tom Edge of Tomorrow 2014 Spielberg Steven War on Terror The War of the Worlds 2005 allegory Greatest Generation The Independence Day 1996...

... commentary, and allegories to think through his relationship with his readers, imagine and guide their reactions to his work, and perform his instructive authority. By teasing out this implicit, recipient-centred poetics, the book recovers sufi didacticism’s participatory, interactive character and shows how...

... of the Birds allegory frame tales Persian texts reading fables Ibn al Nadim Kalila and Demna Nakhshabi Ziaʾ al Din One Thousand and One Nights parables al Radi caliph Samarqandi Zahiri storytelling Suli Abu Bakr Tawhidi Abu Hayyan Alexander the Great Nezami Ong Walter women anecdotes...

...-nama in conjunction with Avicennian psychology, theories of dream interpretation and normative accounts of sufi praxis, O’Malley reconstructs the mystical, Neoplatonic ontological framework under which ʿAttar was operating, and according to which the reading of allegory was not only...

... Netflix 2021 Star Is Born A Cukor 1950 Truman Show The Weir 1998 Westworld Chrichton 1973 Westworld HBO 2016– allegory Boillat Alain Morris Nigel Appaloosa Harris 2008 Django Corbucci 1966 Leone Sergio Wolf Mark J P Hatchuel Sarah Logan’s Run Anderson 1976 Shakespeare William Ivănescu...

...Chapter 5 takes us from films portraying spectators to metaleptical fantasies of escaping or crossing over into the fictional world and, finally, to allegories of film spectatorship. These works offer nuanced conceptions of film audiences whose passion for audiovisual fictions is motivated...