I -- Allegory and Maxim: Power and Faith, Passions and Virtues -- Allegory and the Dramatic Foundations of the Medieval Theater -- Balzacโ{128}{153}s Allegories of Energy in La Comรฉdie Humaine -- Oracle et allรฉgorie dans lโ{128}{153}Andromรจde de Pierre Corneille -- Allegory Then and Now: The Physician and Disease -- Michael Draytonโ{128}{153}s โ{128}{152}Ideasโ{128}{153} and the โ{128}{152}Whereโ{128}{153} and the โ{128}{152}Whenceโ{128}{153} of Allegory -- II -- Les Conquรชtes de la Toison dโ{128}{153}or of 1661 and 1683: The Breakdown of the Sun Allegory -- Le jeu allรฉgorique chez Poussin: Les Putti comme emblรจme dans Tancrรจde et Herminie (Birmingham) -- Michel Butorโ{128}{153}s Lโ{128}{153}Embarquement de la Reine de Saba: An Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience -- Paul de Man and the Question of โ{128}{152}Domination Freeโ{128}{153} Allegory -- Allegory, You Are Woman -- III -- Lโ{128}{153}allรฉgorie du mal. Deux รฉpoques, deux perspectives -- From Metaphor to Matter: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and the Subject of Sight -- Paranoia and the Aesthetics of Chaos in Thomas Pynchonโ{128}{153}s Gravityโ{128}{153}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 Diopโ{128}{153}s Les Contes dโ{128}{153}Amadou Koumba -- The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percyโ{128}{153}s Will Barrett -- The Possibility of a Phenomenology of the Text. From and Against Postmodernism -- Gustav Mahlerโ{128}{153}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