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Hanako and the Teller of Allegory is an earlier series by Sakae Esuno (Future Diary) and will be out March 2, also four volumes.
Tokyopop News: Insider Webcast September 2 » Manga Worth Reading 2009
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Her short fiction has appeared in Allegory, The Harrow, Gryphonwood, and Gemini Magazine.
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Allegory is of course the charged term whose modern reprioritization over symbol stems in no small measure from Benjamin's 1928 study of the German play of lamentation, the Trauerspiel. 19
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It's known as the Allegory of the Cave, it's a dialogue between Socrates (Plato's teacher) and Glaucon (Plato's brother).
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Fab Five Friday: Celebrating Creativity 1. The beautiful Rwanda "Allegory" Knitting Basket I ordered and received from my Macy's giftcard a Christmas gift from my brother which is part of the Paths for Peace project.
Fab Five Friday: Celebrating Creativity Art Visions 2010
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In a sense, if one approaches Shahn's series from the perspective of reader-response theory, the tragedy of the fire (in the Hickman series) and the Holocaust (in "Allegory") are all the more terrifying and devastating because the features of the victims are abstracted.
Menachem Wecker: Exhibit Finds Holocaust Reference in Art of 1947 Chicago Homicide Case 2010
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His short stories have also appeared on webzines, such as Allegory, The Absent Willow Review, and Expressions.
"Rhone" by John A. Karr (Reviewed by Mihir Wanchoo) Cindy 2010
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His short stories have also appeared on webzines, such as Allegory, The Absent Willow Review, and Expressions.
Archive 2010-06-01 Cindy 2010
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There is no menace even in his villains: the crocodiles that represent the bad guys (us) in the Vietnam War; his not-quite-right Mickey Mouses; the skeleton with the black flag bearing a cornucopia in "Allegory" or (in the same picture) the equestrian statue with its failed revolutionary rider toppling off a column dated 1871, which in turn stands on a plinth dated 1848 at the top and 1789 and the bottom.
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Left wall: Philip Guston "Allegory" 1947 casein on brown paper, mounted on canvas
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