Allegory Old and New

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I. - Allegory and Maxim: Power and Faith, Passions and Virtues. - Allegory and the Dramatic Foundations of the Medieval Theater. - Balzac s Allegories of Energy in La Comédie Humaine. - Oracle et allégorie dans l Andromède de Pierre Corneille. - Allegory Then and Now: The Physician and Disease. - Michael Drayton s `Ideas and the `Where and the `Whence of Allegory. - II. - Les Conquêtes de la Toison d or of 1661 and 1683: The Breakdown of the Sun Allegory. - Le jeu allégorique chez Poussin: Les Putti comme emblème dans Tancrède et Herminie (Birmingham). - Michel Butor s L Embarquement de la Reine de Saba: An Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience. - Paul de Man and the Question of `Domination Free Allegory. - Allegory, You Are Woman. - III. - L allégorie du mal. Deux époques, deux perspectives. - From Metaphor to Matter: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and the Subject of Sight. - Paranoia and the Aesthetics of Chaos in Thomas Pynchon s Gravity s Rainbow. - Metaphoric and Metonymic Allegory: Ricoeur, Jakobson, and the Poetry of W. B. Yeats. - The Transformed and Transforming Image in the Shift from Print to Digital Culture. - IV. - Billy Budd: An Allegory on the Rights of Man. - Political Allegory: Bakhtin, Jameson and Birago Diop s Les Contes d Amadou Koumba. - The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percy s Will Barrett. - The Possibility of a Phenomenology of the Text. From and Against Postmodernism. - Gustav Mahler s Ich binder Welt abhanden gekommen as Song and Symphonic Movement: Abduction, Over-Coding, and Catachresis. - Madana (the Mythical Love-God) in Kalidasa and Tagore. - Annex. - Freedom and Creativity. - Index of Names.