Allegory Old and New

Section I: Allegory and Maxim: Power and Faith, Passions and Virtues; M. Kronegger. Allegory and the Dramatic Foundations of the Medieval Theater; J. Smith. Balzac's Allegories of Energy in La comédie humaine; C. Raffini. Oracle et allégorie dans Andromède de Pierre Corneille; H. Visentin. Allegory Then and Now: the Physician and Disease; J.B. Williamson. Michael Drayton's `'Ideas' and the `Where' and the `Whence' of Allegory; H. Ross. Section II: Les conquêtes de la Toison d'or of 1661 and 1683: the Breakdown of the Sun Allegory; M.-F. Wagner. Le jeu allégorique chez Poussin: Les Putti comme emblème dans Trancrède et Herminie; F. Divorne. Michel Butor's L'embarquement de la Reine de Saba: an Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience; L. Oppenheim. Paul de Man and the Question of `Domination Free' Allegory; D.K. Heckerl. Allegory, You are Woman; N. Campi de Castro. Section II: L'allégorie du mal. Deux époques, deux perspectives; P. Suárez Pascual, M. Alfaro Amieiro. From Metaphor to Matter: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and the Subject of Sight; H. Fletcher Thompson. Paranoia and the Aesthetics of Chaos in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow; G.B. Moore. Metaphoric and Metonymic Allegory: Ricoeur, Jakobson, and the Poetry of W.B. Yeats; R.J. Wilson III. The Transformed and Transforming Image in the Shift from Print to Digital Culture; S. Stensaas. Section IV: Billy Budd: an Allegory on the Rights of Man; C. Michael. Political Allegory: Bakhtin, Jameson and Birago Diop's Les contes d'Amadou Koumba; K.W. Brewer. The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percy's Will Berrett; B. Prochaska. The Possibility of aPhenomenology of the Text. From and Against Postmodernism; P. Vandevelde. Gustav Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen as Song and Symphonic Movement: Abduction, Over-Coding, and Catachresis; D.L. Mosley. Madana (the Mythical Love-God) in Kalidasa and Tagore; S. Ray. Annex: Freedom and Creativity; Z. Zvie Bar-On.