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An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an...


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Yearbook of English Studies
Allegory and Violence.
01/01/1999: 718 words, approx. 2 pages
Allegory and Violence. By GORDON TESKEY. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1996. xiv+195 pp. [pound]27.50. In his Preface to Chaucer D. W. Robertson outlined a continuous tradition of allegorical theory and practice extending from the sixth century bc to the eighteenth...
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Yearbook of English Studies
Reinventing Allegory.
01/01/2000: 932 words, approx. 3 pages
Reinventing Allegory. By Theresa M. Kelley. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 22). Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xv +345 pp. [pound]37.50;$54.95. In Reinventing Allegory, Theresa M. Kelley discusses a wide array of works which she gathers under the word...
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FEATURE-Action movie an allegory for Putin's Russia
11/3/2007: 581 words, approx. 2 pages
MOSCOW, Nov 3 (Reuters) - In a film that hit cinema screens this week, patriotic Russians despairing at the lack of a strong leader rise up, throw out their Western overlords and make Russia a proud country once again. It could be a documentary...
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The New York Observer
Guilt Over Fascism Fuels the Spanish Allegory in 'Pan's Labyrinth'
1/29/2007: 309 words, approx. 1 pages
The movie is set, very realistically, in a fascist outpost in the mountains in 1944. Franco's troops are trying to root out the guerillas. The heroine of the movie is Ofelia, a girl of 9 or 10 whose widowed mother has, horrifyingly, remarried a fascist...
 


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