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allegory

allegory   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Semiotics

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Language reference, Linguistics
Length:
1,899 words
Illustration(s):
1

encompasses messages expressed in manners other than plain speaking. The term is derived from the Greek allos (other) and agoreuein ...

Allegory

Allegory   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE)
Length:
2,996 words

is a word of Greek origin, meaning literally “speaking differently.” Normally, it involves seeking a second and deeper meaning behind ...

Allegory

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Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Language reference, Linguistics
Length:
1,916 words

(Lat. inversio) ...

is a trope constituted by a semantic substitution. It can be realized as a metataxeme or as

Allegory

Allegory   Reference library

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
151 words

A narrative expressing abstract ideas as concrete symbols; a description of a topic or subject under the guise of another ...

Allegory

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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
84 words

The method of scriptural interpretation in which persons and events mentioned in the Bible are understood not in a literal ...

Allegory

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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
754 words

(ἀλληγορία) in Byz. was used in the sphere of both literature and theology. Literary Allegory Theological Allegory ...

Allegory

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
690 words

Allegory was considered a trope (rhetorical figure) by ancient grammarians. In the first century bce, Trypho, in a list ...

allegory

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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (early and medieval)
Length:
1,014 words

appears in such a variety of shapes and forms that it is not easy to pin it down by a ...

Allegory

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
721 words

was one of the dominant concerns of early Italian literature, as it had been for all European writers since the ...

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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Religion
Length:
576 words

A method of *interpretation or exposition where the words contain a secondary meaning, other than the straightforward one. John ...

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World Encyclopedia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
42 words

Literary work in either prose or verse in which more than one level of meaning is expressed simultaneously. The fables ...

literatures: allegorical

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
933 words

(Latin) Allegorical representation is a distinctive form of ML literary creation that employs a sustained, figurative mode of expression. It ...

allegory

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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
Length:
618 words

S. T. *Coleridge provides the paradigmatic instance of the Romantic rejection, at the level of *literary theory [41], of ...

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Art & Architecture
Length:
91 words

The representation of an abstract quality or idea through a series of symbols or persons given symbolic meaning. Allegories were particularly popular in ...

ALLEGORY

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Religion
Length:
528 words

As a mode of interpretation of the Bible, allegory was a central and crucial step in the development of Jewish ...

allegory

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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
1,550 words
Illustration(s):
1

Starting from definitions inherited from ancient Rhetoric, the Church Fathers elucidated a properly theological conception of allegory. At the ...

allegory, Latin

allegory, Latin   Reference library

Jonathan Tate and Philip Russell Hardie

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
527 words

An awareness of the Greek traditions of allegory (see allegory, greek) entered Rome with the Hellenization of Roman culture; ...

allegory, Greek

allegory, Greek   Reference library

Michael Burney Trapp

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
965 words

Elements of allegory are present in Greek literature from the earliest stage: in *Homer, in Phoenix' Prayers (Λιταί, Il.... ...

allegory

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Ronald W. Vince

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
148 words
As an attribute of an artistic work, allegory is a form of extended metaphor in which objects and characters denote meanings beyond the confines of the fiction, usually by presenting ... More
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Language reference, History of English, Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies
Length:
42 words
a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. The word comes (in late Middle English) via Old French and Latin from ... More

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