Sentences with phrase «read as allegories»

Ken Johnson: «Her pictures might be read as allegories of consciousness: mindscapes dominated by large, relatively slow - moving ideas — the big women — with nattering, peripheral thoughts, fantasies and anxieties carrying on like unruly children in the background.

He keeps inventing new ways to challenge our beliefs in ostensible truths and convincing lies, creating surreal stories that can be read as allegories for political events and historic accounts.

Through runny eyes, you might even read them as allegories.

Pilgrim's Progress, cited by Braithwaite, was an influential guide to behaviour only because it was read as an allegory faithfully representing the way of life recommended by the Bible and supported by the claims therein about God and the world.

And the coda, with Wick leaving Central Park in a hurry, can easily be read as an allegory for the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, meaning our hero has a lot to answer for.

Though Princess Mononoke deals with green philosophy and Spirited Away can be read as an allegory of child prostitution in Asia, the images of noble pigs and pre-bellum fascism are too broad and obvious to be taken without a certain cynicism.

The title of the work, as the exhibition itself, can be read as an allegory: When a «face» looks into «water face», referring to the watery - fluids found in another person's eye, one sees not only the other's face, but his own face as is reflected in the other's eye.

Lashed together workbenches that refer to old mining equipment, various scattered tools and an abandoned camp - fire can be read as an allegory to abandoned industries where whole communities move on to find employment elsewhere.

Not exact matches

The myth declared historical — critical method to be the only true way to read the New Testament, and dismissed all other modes of reading (particularly the despised errors of allegory) as «precritical.»

It is also possible to recognize other ways of reading the New Testament: not only midrash, but also typology and allegory are modes of reading which, given their assumptions and rules of discourse, are every bit as disciplined and «true» as that offered by the literalist renderings of the historical - critical method.

For instance, since «Bush has been remarkably successful in persuading the American people to endorse a simple allegory of good and evil,» Donoghue complains, «it would be difficult, in these lurid circumstances, to read Moby - Dick as anything but a revenge play.»

When reading the history of interpretation of Scripture, one is permitted to smile but not to laugh at allegory, symbolism, typology, and levels of meaning, for these were sincere efforts to hold the Scripture as Scripture while insisting that the congregation deserved some relevant word for its own situation.

Stephen Greenblatt, for instance, in Renaissance Self - Fashioning (1980), the foundational work of the New Historicism, reads Othello as a virtual allegory of the European conquest of the New World.

I don't have a problem with you reading Genesis as an allegory, but I hope you can see that there is resonant meaning here beyond your limited understanding.

Criticism is all about reading and looking for subtexts and allegory, as you do.

As allegories go, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» is elastic enough to support any number of readings.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

I know of many who read it as a child, but didn't get the Christian allegory until they read it as an adult.

As Richard Dorment says in his review: «The phenomenon started in 1840 when John Ruskin, who was raised in the evangelical church, told readers of Modern Painters that Turner's pictures should be read as moral allegories — to which Turner replied that the critic «sees more in my pictures than I ever painted.&raquAs Richard Dorment says in his review: «The phenomenon started in 1840 when John Ruskin, who was raised in the evangelical church, told readers of Modern Painters that Turner's pictures should be read as moral allegories — to which Turner replied that the critic «sees more in my pictures than I ever painted.&raquas moral allegories — to which Turner replied that the critic «sees more in my pictures than I ever painted.»

You Killed me First (1985), one of Richard Kern's longer films starring David Wojnarowicz and Lung Leg, could be read as a clear teenage allegory of the Cinema of Transgression itself.

I started to think about this as I read my own recent story about Alma Asay, the former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory.