Search Results - "allegory"
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War allegory in Narayan Wagle's Palpasa Café
Published 2018“…Allegory is elaborated in terms of paradox. Paradoxical allegory reveals the implicit metafictional authorial presence in the novel's narrative structure to accentuate the author's subjective voice. …”
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Interpolating South Asian Transnational Heritage: Allegory In South Asian Diasporic Metropolitan Young Adult Fiction
Published 2016“…This paper investigates a selection of young adult fiction written by authors of the South Asian diaspora to determine whether the use of allegory in the form of cultural myths and folklore drawn from an ancestral cultural repertoire allows these texts to insert themselves into and dismantle the hegemony of metropolitan Eurocentricism in the consciousness of the diasporic South Asian reader. …”
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Fairy tales and allegory of Malay(si)an Chinese literature in the early stage of the cold war (1946-1965)
Published 2021“…There were many south migrant writers who were active in the Malayan Chinese literary world, writing fairy tales and allegory. The rise and influence of the May Fourth New Literature Movement brought the concept of “People” to the forefront of literature. …”
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Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001)
Published 2015“…It argues that the film merits re-interpretation as being not only a parody of political correctness but also a powerful allegory for the increasing demands placed on employees to invest their most personal affects and aptitudes in their work. …”
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The concept of plato's theory of the allegory of the cave and its impact toward Malaysian current political scenario / Norun Najjah Ahmat and Siti Rohana Omar
Published 2008“…Whatever political issues are happening in Malaysia, the scholars particularly the politicians or the academicians (political analyst) would recognize the deep-rooted impact of Plato's theory of the allegory of the cave toward the survival of the parties either opponent or government and its effect towards Malaysian political stability. …”
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Allegorical interpretation of the role of philosophy in the discourse of Philo and Ibn Rushd
Published 2012“…Instead of dismissing traditional mythology and poetry as heresies, Greek philosophy introduced a methodology of understanding known as allegory. Philo of Alexandria (20 BC–50 AD) was one of the first to employ allegory for understanding religious scriptures whose writings survived in the Christian traditions. …”
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Qur'anic exegesis of tafsir bil mathur
Published 2011“…Greek philosophy had introduced a methodology for interpretation known as allegory. Generally, it means that beneath the apparent meaning of a story is concealed another, more important meaning. …”
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منهج العربية في التعبير عن العدد = Manhaj al-'Arabiyah fi al-ta'bir 'an al-'adad
Published 2013“…The use of fewness plural in place of multitude plural and vice-versa is a matter of allegory.…”
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Malaysian postmodern art and its strategies
Published 2008“…Redza Piyadasa, in discussing Malaysian art development in Malaysia argues that there were a few postmodernist in the mid 1970s and one of them was an exhibition emitted "Towards a Mystical Reality" This paper will discuss three postmodern an strategies in Malaysia, conceptualised through "Towards a Mystical Reality," allegory and appropriation.…”
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Impossible Properties: Language And Legitimacy In Ong Keng Sen's Lear
Published 2014“…This paper seeks to recuperate Lear's local meanings both as a text and as a uniquely Singaporean political allegory. In the paper's first section, I will outline the play and its critique as late capitalist spectacle. …”
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Interpolating South Asian spaces and transnational habitation in Tanuja Desai Hidier’s born confused
Published 2015“…This is done by focusing on the ways in which South Asian elements of place, history, and allegory interpolate into the narrative space of Tanuja Desai Hidier’s young adult novel, Born Confused (2002). …”
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Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004)
Published 2012“…Finally, it considers how the film’s construction of an encrypted allegory also prompts the question of whether or not film production that depends upon the funding and agendas of international capital and neo-colonial powers can ever foster the resurgence of a genuinely ‘popular’ and progressive culture in post-conflict Angola.…”
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Of Rajuk and demasculinization. Examining class inequality and gender representations in Hussain Haniff’s Hang Jebat (1961)
Published 2020“…This article analyses rajuk in two main focuses; firstly on how explosive rajuk which is an allegory to the anti-feudal nature is expressed by Hang Jebat and how rajuk resulted an implication in his more feminine character compare to his rebel character at the beginning of this film.…”
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