I -- Allegory and Maxim: Power and Faith, Passions and Virtues -- Allegory and the Dramatic Foundations of the Medieval Theater -- Balzacโs Allegories of Energy in La Comรฉdie Humaine -- Oracle et allรฉgorie dans lโAndromรจde de Pierre Corneille -- Allegory Then and Now: The Physician and Disease -- Michael Draytonโs โIdeasโ and the โWhereโ and the โWhenceโ of Allegory -- II -- Les Conquรชtes de la Toison dโor 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 Butorโs LโEmbarquement de la Reine de Saba: An Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience -- Paul de Man and the Question of โDomination Freeโ Allegory -- Allegory, You Are Woman -- III -- Lโallรฉgorie 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 Pynchonโs Gravityโs 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 Diopโs Les Contes dโAmadou Koumba -- The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percyโs Will Barrett -- The Possibility of a Phenomenology of the Text. From and Against Postmodernism -- Gustav Mahlerโs 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

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