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Journal articles on the topic "Allegorical narrative"

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Abreu, Alexandre Veloso de. "Unnatural London: the Metaphor and the Marvelous in China Mieville's Perdido Street Station." Scripta 22, no. 46 (2018): 193–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2358-3428.2018v22n46p193-202.

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This paper explores allegorical and unnatural elements in China Miéville’s novel Perdido Street Station, starting with a parallel between the fictional city New Crobuzon and London. Fantasy literature examines human nature by means of myth and archetype and science fiction exploits the same aspects, although emphasizing technological possibilities. Horror is said to explore human nature plunging into our deepest fears. We encounter the three elements profusely in the narrative, making it a dense fictional exercise. In postclassical narratology, unnatural narratives are understood as mimetical exercises questioning verisimilitude in the level of the story and of discourse. When considered unnatural, narratives have a broader scope, sometimes even transcending this mimetical limitation. Fantastical and marvelous elements generally strike us as bizarre and question the standards that govern the real world around us. Although Fantasy worlds do also mirror the world we live in, they allow us the opportunity to confront the model when physically or logically impossible characters or scenes enhance the reader’s imagination. Elements of the fantastic and the marvelous relate to metaphor as a figure of speech and can help us explore characters’ archetypical functions, relating these allegorical symbols to the polis. In Miéville’s narrative, such characters will be paralleled to inhabitants of London in different temporal and spatial contexts, enhancing how the novel metaphorically represents the city as an elaborate narrative strategy.

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White, Mandala. "Framing travel and terrorism: Allegory in The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 3 (2017): 444–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417738125.

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In contrast to others who have read Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist exclusively as a political novel, I argue that the novel’s most significant contribution to the body of post-9/11 literature is formal in nature. The novel indeed mobilizes political issues, but it achieves this by creating a series of allegories that centre on various forms of travel connected to the terrorism hinted at in the term “fundamentalist” in the title. These allegories, which I examine in the first part of this article, revolve around the interactions between the protagonist and those he encounters as he travels: the hosts and guests in the travel interactions function as allegories of different nations, and the relationships between nations within global space. However, while the novel’s travel allegories indeed raise political concerns, these are often conflicted and ambiguous owing to the unreliability of the narrator. Rather than selecting one of the unreliable perspectives brought forth by the travel allegories as “true”, I read them as part of a larger meta-allegorical project in which the narrative itself becomes an allegory of the uncertainties of the post-9/11 environment. In the second part of this article, I discuss this meta-allegorical project through an examination of the novel’s narrative structure, particularly its frame narrative which, I argue, provides a means for Hamid to allegorically explore the ways that permeable borders engender paranoia and fear of terrorism in the post-9/11 context.

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McCall, Daniel F., and Robert Cancel. "Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition." International Journal of African Historical Studies 23, no. 1 (1990): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220027.

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Dorsey, David, and Robert Cancel. "Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition." World Literature Today 64, no. 1 (1990): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40146063.

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Roberts, Allen F., and Robert Cancel. "Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition." African Arts 24, no. 1 (1991): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336886.

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Roberts, Allen F., and Robert Cancel. "Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition." Journal of American Folklore 104, no. 413 (1991): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/541464.

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Merolla, Daniela. "Filming African Creation Myths." Religion and the Arts 13, no. 4 (2009): 521–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/107992609x12524941450082.

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AbstractAfrican film directors have made use of mythology and oral storytelling in countless circumstances. These filmmakers have explored the core role that orality plays in ideas of African identity and used mythological themes as allegorical forms in order to address present-day issues while working under dictatorial regimes. They have turned to mythology and oral storytelling because of their determination to convey an African philosophical approach to the world, often to counter the colonial and neo-colonial oversimplification of African cultures seen as bereft of grand narratives on the self and the world. Identity construction, critical allegorical messages, and philosophical approaches are discussed in this paper by looking at the interplay between verbal narrative and images in two “epic” films: Keïta, l'héritage du Griot (1995) directed by Dani Kouyaté, and Yeelen (1987) directed by Souleymane Cissé.

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Grillo, Jennie. "The Envelope and the Halo: Reading Susanna Allegorically." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 72, no. 4 (2018): 408–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020964318784242.

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The tale of Susanna in the Greek versions of the book of Daniel has its roots in allegorical readings of Hebrew Scripture, and the church has read the story of Susanna both as an allegory of the church and of Christ. The allegorical treatment of Susanna as the church is the most acceptable to modern criticism, since it preserves the narrative coherence of the book; but the more fragmentary, piecemeal allegory of Susanna as Christ was compelling in antiquity, especially in visual interpretations. This essay explores how allegorical readings of Susanna as a Christ figure capture an essential part of the reader’s visual, non-sequential experience of the text and provides a satisfying and meaningful image for Christians.

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Shanzer, Danuta. "Latent Narrative Patterns, Allegorical Choices, and Literary Unity in Augustine's Confessions." Vigiliae Christianae 46, no. 1 (1992): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1583883.

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Shanzer, Danuta. "Latent Narrative Patterns, Allegorical Choices, and Literary Unity in Augustine's Confessions1." Vigiliae Christianae 46, no. 1 (1992): 40–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007292x00250.

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Moore, Stephen Gerard. "A shifting paradigm, the act of reading actors in medieval allegorical narrative." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0002/NQ27841.pdf.

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Souza, Adriana Vieira de. "Muito além do que se vê : a alegoria, em Ensaio sobre a cegueira, de José Saramago." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2011. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6454.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:34:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Vieira de Souza.pdf: 578214 bytes, checksum: efd8c9207e40c2dcb84ae73c6c94830e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-04<br>The objective of this research is the analysis of textual features worked by José Saramago, the allegorical structure of his novel Ensaio sobre a cegueira (1995). It presents a review of the theoretical concept of allegory, considering its origins, forms and subdivisions, and points out the similarities and the imbalance between allegory and other figures of speech. This sort of historical allegory: "allegory of poets" and "allegory of theologians." It highlights the opposition between symbol and allegory, promoted by the romantics and focuses on the concept of "allegorical reading." It points to the allegorical elements present in the narrative: the words that illustrate his own title, the intertextuality with the sayings, the characters, the narrator and narrative spaces. Based on studies of Walter Benjamin, Kothe Flávio, João Adolfo Hansen, Mikhail Bakhtin and Marc Augé, seeks to highlight the novel by Saramago as a place for questioning the man in the world<br>O objetivo desta pesquisa é a análise das características textuais trabalhadas por José Saramago, na estrutura alegórica de seu romance Ensaio sobre a cegueira (1995). Para isso, realiza uma revisão teórica do conceito de alegoria, considerando sua origem, formas e subdivisões, e aponta as semelhanças e as desproporções entre alegoria e outras figuras de linguagem. Trata da classificação histórica da alegoria: alegoria dos poetas e alegoria dos teólogos . Destaca a oposição entre símbolo e alegoria, promovida pelos românticos e enfoca o conceito de leitura alegórica . Pontua os elementos alegóricos presentes na narrativa: nos vocábulos que ilustram o seu próprio título, na intertextualidade com os ditos populares, nas personagens, no narrador e nos espaços narrativos. Fundamentada nos estudos de Walter Benjamin, Flávio Kothe, João Adolfo Hansen, Mikhail Bakhtin e Marc Augé, busca ressaltar o romance de Saramago como espaço de questionamento do homem no mundo

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Vaccaro, Jacob. "Mythical, historical and allegorical narratives in Till we have faces." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1477.

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Fumagalli, Chiara. "Mito e allegoria nel racconto di fine millenio - Antonio Tabucchi, Pierre Michon e László Krasznahorkai." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030025.

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À la fin des années 70, lorsqu’on commence à s’interroger autour des changements historico-politiques qui intéressent les deux “moitiés” de l’Europe, la crise du bloc communiste et la fin des idéologies, la référence à la Modernité est inévitable : on discute la crise de la modernité, d’une modernité inaccomplie ou accomplie. Comment est-ce que le paradigme littéraire change en cette “période de mutation”? Comment s’exprime dans la littérature contemporaine la recherche du sens? On assiste, dans le panorama littéraire, au retour du sujet et du besoin anthropologique de la narration, à la fonction du narrateur comme témoin et médiateur d’histoires d’autrui. À travers la narration de récits de vie, des destins “fragmentés”, des biographies réinventées, on peut remarquer l’intention de ressusciter des “marginalia”, des traces oubliées par l’Histoire : on essaie de donner un sens à une vie ou de saisir une vie par le sens, de représenter la quête d’un centre métaphysique par le personnage qui revit le conflit et la dissociation entre “âme et forme”. Ce sont des récits de filiations, ils narrent des relations père-fils, de l’histoire de la faute et de l’origine du pouvoir, mais aussi des vies marginales, des traces de l’histoire et du rôle du narrateur en tant que témoin. Les auteurs ont recours au mythe : on s’interrogera alors sur le sens nouveau de la représentation du mythe dans ces récits en tant qu’interprétation allégorique du contemporain et d’une relation nouvelle au temps ; on questionnera son utilisation en tant qu’allégorie vide et énigmatique<br>In the late 70s, when one begins to wonder about the historical and political changes regarding the two “halves” of Europe, the crisis of the communist bloc and the end of ideology, the reference to Modernity is inevitable: the crisis of modernity is discussed – a modernity accomplished or unaccomplished. How does the literary paradigm change in this “time of mutation”? How is it expressed the search for meaning in the contemporary literature? We are the witnesses, in the literary scene, of the subject’s return and of the anthropological need of narration (the function of the narrator as a mediator of others’ stories). Through the narration of life stories, “fragmented” destinies, reinvented biographies, we can see the intention of resurrecting the “marginalia”, the traces forgotten by history: we try to give meaning to a life or to grasp a life by meaning, we try to represent the quest for a metaphysical centre through the character reliving the conflict and the dissociation between “soul and forms”. The authors use the myth: we will ask the new meaning of the representation of myth in these stories as an allegorical interpretation of contemporary and a new relationship to time; we will question its use as empty and enigmatic allegory

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Johnson, Stacy Marie. "Reading between the lines Frederick Douglass's allegorical Narrative /." 2003. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/johnson%5Fstacy%5Fm%5F200305%5Fma.

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Books on the topic "Allegorical narrative"

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Cancel, Robert. Allegorical speculation in an oral society: The Tabwa narrative tradition. University of California Press, 1989.

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To realize the universal: Allegorical narrative in Thornton Wilder's plays and novels. Peter Lang, 2012.

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Speculative grammar and stoic language theory in medieval allegorical narrative: From Prudentius to Alan of Lille. Routledge, 2009.

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Rhetoric and theology: Figural reading of John 9. Walter de Gruyter, 2009.

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M, Wright William. Rhetoric and theology: Figural reading of John 9. Walter de Gruyter, 2009.

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Articulating gender, narrating the nation: Allegorical femininity in Romanian fiction. East European Monographs, 2004.

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Le immagini e il tempo: Narrazione visiva, storia e allegoria tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Edizioni della Normale, 2007.

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Pratolini, Vasco. L’ammuina. Edited by Maria Carla Papini. Firenze University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-529-6.

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È alla fine degli anni Quaranta che Vasco Pratolini inizia a concepire il progetto di quel “romanzo napoletano” che persegue almeno sino al gennaio del 1952. Ripetutamente annunciato all’editore Vallecchi come imminente, il romanzo, a più riprese e in vario modo ideato, non fu mai pubblicato e, forse, come tale, neppure scritto. Tuttavia quel progetto torna ad affiorare e perfino a realizzarsi nel testo de L’ammuina, il trattamento che Pratolini scrive, agli inizi degli anni Sessanta, per il film di Nanni Loy, Le quattro giornate di Napoli. Ulteriore esempio dell’attività dello scrittore nel mondo del cinema, L’ammuina, a distanza di oltre cinquant’anni dalla sua stesura e dall’uscita del film, assume una dimensione del tutto autonoma rispetto alla sua originaria destinazione, tanto da poter apparire come il “romanzo napoletano” di Pratolini, quello che l’autore di Cronache di poveri amanti, di Metello, Lo scialo, Allegoria e derisione, e di tanti altri romanzi e racconti che hanno dato lustro alla nostra narrativa, aveva vagheggiato e che ora ci appare, sia pure in altra forma, nelle pagine de L’ammuina.

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al-Musawi, Muhsin. The Medieval Turn in Modern Arabic Narrative. Edited by Waïl S. Hassan. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.4.

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This chapter examines the medieval turn in modern Arabic fiction, which includes historical reconstruction, neo-historicism, topographical narration, Sufi dreams and visions, allegorical travelogues, biographies, chats and anecdotes, and majālis, or assemblies accommodating hashish addicts and Sufi gatherings. The chapter first considers the Arabic historical novel before turning to narrative genealogies in modern Arabic fiction in which visions and dreams are present as markers of medieval Sufism and poetics. It then explores the phenomenal growth of Sufism among peasants, craftsmen, and artisans, including women; Arabic novels that connect well with the khiṭaṭ genre; the travelogue as a venue for an allegorical critique; the use of Qur’anic phrases or catchwords in Arabic narratives; and works entrenched in classical style. The chapter provides examples to dispute the notion that pre-modern Arab culture has not survived its encounter with Europe and the engagement with European literary norms.

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Dan, Hansong. To Realize the Universal: Allegorical Narrative in Thornton Wilder's Plays and Novels. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Allegorical narrative"

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Baert, Barbara, and Liesbet Kusters. "The Tree as Narrative, Formal, and Allegorical Index in Representations of the Noli me tangere." In The Tree. Brepols Publishers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.imr-eb.1.102026.

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Krause, Kathy M. "Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 378 and the Gendered Visages of Allegorical Narrative." In The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript. V&R unipress, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/9783737007542.179.

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"Chapter Seven. ALLEGORICAL UNDOINGS." In Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan. Princeton University Press, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400861002.165.

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Anderson, Judith H. "Spenser's Use of Chaucer's Melibee: Allegory, Narrative, History." In Reading the Allegorical Intertext. Fordham University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823228478.003.0007.

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"6. Spenser’s Use of Chaucer’s Melibee: Allegory, Narrative, History." In Reading the Allegorical Intertext. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780823238132-008.

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"2. Toxi’s Allegorical Narrative: Adjoining Reality and Fantasy." In Race under Reconstruction in German Cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442670174-004.

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Berger, Harry. "Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene." In Resisting Allegory, edited by David Lee Miller. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285631.003.0003.

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This chapter synthesizes a number of critical accounts of Elizabethan humanist culture to construct a dynamic interplay among three different models of reading: reading as if seeing, opposed by the text’s iconoclasm; reading as if hearing, based on traces of orality in the rhetoric; and reading as if reading, a.k.a. “perusing.” The chapter focuses on the episode of Phaon/Phedon, Furor, and Occasion in Book 2 to demonstrate its thesis that the text of Book 2 resists an allegorical program based on the ideological values of Temperance.

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Zeeman, Nicolette. "Introduction." In The Arts of Disruption. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860242.003.0001.

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The Introduction summarizes the book’s arguments and expands on the critical tradition of allegory theory that underpins the book. It discusses the five conflictual allegorical structures that will be the focus of the book as well as their appearance, substantially remodelled, in Piers Plowman. These are the paradiastolic ‘hypocritical figure’ (vices and virtues made to look respectively like ‘adjacent’ virtues and vices), personification debate, violent language and apophasis, narratives of bodily decline associated with age and sin, and grail romance. Through the study of these five allegorical structures, the book will pursue a larger thesis about the fundamentally disruptive nature of allegory, a form of writing that comes into being wherever two or more contrasting languages are brought into a relationship or used to comment on each other. Drawing on a number major theorists of allegory, the Introduction reaffirms that the characteristic modes of the most thoroughgoing and serious allegorical narrative in the Middle Ages are dialectical, conflictual, episodic, hypotactic, ironizing, and linguistically diverse. The Introduction further argues that such forms of strategic dissonance and the questioning of perceived continuities may be particularly common in religious allegory, with its tendency towards critique, iconoclasm and apophasis.

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"The Presence of Stoicism in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Language Theory." In Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative. Routledge, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203886519-8.

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"Language and Abstraction in Prudentian Allegory." In Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative. Routledge, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203886519-7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Allegorical narrative"

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Khan, Sabariah Ahmad. "Allegorical narratives: redefining the evolution of ornamented aesthetic principles of Langkasukan art of the Malay Peninsula, Malaysia." In ISLAMIC HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE AND ART 2016. WIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/iha160011.

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