Sentences with phrase «allegorical reading»

On the surface, Anton Corbijn's film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith - for - hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli's allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated nation.

Pearce concludes the book with a painfully uninformed discussion of King Lear that ignores the obligatory decision about the quarto and folio texts, as well as the entire critical and theatrical history; he advances a naive allegorical reading whose major elements have all appeared, more cogently, elsewhere.

Such an allegorical reading is not without its historical precedent.

Origen recognized the limitations of this compromise and relativized both promises in an inclusive system of allegorical readings.

If J.R.R. Tolkien weren't so famously averse to allegorical readings of his fantasy novels, one could be so bold as to suggest an «America as savior» reading of the conclusion to the titular battle, wherein simply the appearance of the eagles seems to imply that the enemy has been vanquished.

Its vigor and openness to multiple allegorical readings will endure for years to come.

Distinguished by a constant shuttle between literal and allegorical readings, Hardy's artworks are both resolutely materialist and infused with a human scale and, more precisely, a human fragility that forces the viewer to confront them as bodies in space.

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We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

Reading it may give you a good allegorical perspective on early Christian theology.

As in most examples of allegorical or symbolical interpretation, the interpreter's views are first subtly read into the text and then adroitly extracted by a pretended exegesis.

As a huge admirer of the author I was stunned to read such a long, well - thought out piece that never once mentioned Lewis» most important and enduring book, «The Screwtape Letters» or his sci - fi allegorical Perelandra books.

No doubt I've not read all your posts so I don't know to which sect you adhere, but how do you * know * which parts of the Bible are allegorical, and which parts should be taken literally?

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

It's easy to read allegorical meaning and a lot of viewers chose to see it as a statement on casual sex and STDs.

After an immersion into the allegorical X-Men universe, students read Golding's Lord of the Flies with far greater confidence and efficiency, able to make light work of complex analysis.

If I read it for the first time today, the cynic in me would probably brush over the story as yet another allegorical fable but, when I first read it, perhaps at the age of 10, the story just reached out and absorbed me.

It includes medical cases, trial readings, theological essays and allegorical stories.

These tents can be read as surrogates for the artist, and at the same time they are a critique of the symbolic and allegorical traditions of German art.