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

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

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Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
(Lat. inversio) ...
is a trope constituted by a semantic substitution. It can be realized as a metataxeme or as

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
A narrative expressing abstract ideas as concrete symbols; a description of a topic or subject under the guise of another ...

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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The method of scriptural interpretation in which persons and events mentioned in the Bible are understood not in a literal ...

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

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
Allegory was considered a trope (rhetorical figure) by ancient grammarians. In the first century

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

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
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.)
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
Literary work in either prose or verse in which more than one level of meaning is expressed simultaneously. The fables ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
(Latin) Allegorical representation is a distinctive form of ML literary creation that employs a sustained, figurative mode of expression. It ...

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

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Ronald W. Vince
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
The representation of an abstract quality or idea through a series of symbols or persons given symbolic meaning. Allegories were particularly popular in ...

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

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

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Jonathan Tate and Philip Russell Hardie
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
An awareness of the Greek traditions of allegory (see

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Michael Burney Trapp
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
Elements of allegory are present in Greek literature from the earliest stage: in *Homer, in Phoenix' Prayers (Λιταί, Il.... ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
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