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... allegory imparts cultural values . A measure of allegory is present in literature whenever it emphasizes thematic content , ideas rather than events . Generally , the allegorical mode flourishes under authoritarian conditions . Thus it ...
... allegory imparts cultural values . A measure of allegory is present in literature whenever it emphasizes thematic content , ideas rather than events . Generally , the allegorical mode flourishes under authoritarian conditions . Thus it ...
Page 105
Stoic allegory allegory envisaged the system of the universe as an ascend- ing ladder of forms , a “ Great Chain of Being , ” and was summed up in terms of myth in his Timaeus . Plato and Platonic thought became , through the influence ...
Stoic allegory allegory envisaged the system of the universe as an ascend- ing ladder of forms , a “ Great Chain of Being , ” and was summed up in terms of myth in his Timaeus . Plato and Platonic thought became , through the influence ...
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... allegory for him seems chiefly to lie in the ambiguous diction and syn- tax employed in the poem . Instead of flashing allegorical emblems before the reader , Milton generates a questioning attitude that searches out allegory more as a ...
... allegory for him seems chiefly to lie in the ambiguous diction and syn- tax employed in the poem . Instead of flashing allegorical emblems before the reader , Milton generates a questioning attitude that searches out allegory more as a ...
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