INTRODUCTION Between the years 1337 and 1339, the artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti adorned the walls of the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, Italy, with frescoes depicting allegories of good government and bad government and their effects on city and country (see Fig. 1). His imagery is lucid and effective. The “good government” fresco depicts a wise monarch surrounded by personifications of virtues such a...

Introduction In his chapter titled ‘Allegories of Space’ Espen Aarseth states that, “[c]omputer games are essentially concerned with spatial representation and negotiation” (Aarseth 2001, 154). By playing a videogame, the player has to move their character or objects through space. This happens in two-dimensional platform games, first-person shooters, and even puzzle games such as Tetris or Bej...

If ever a literary genre were made for consumer research, that is allegory. The word comes from the Ancient Greek allegoreo, meaning to speak of other in marketplace. Building on pioneering research Barbara B. Stern, this article considers character and characteristics allegorical storytelling. It does so by means an empirical study richly storied apparel brand, Hollister (HCo), whose sudden ri...

Self-portrait in the art of XVII century acquires an original and complex interpretation painting graphics European masters: increased emotionality, bodily transformations theatricality turn genre into one most interesting to study. Masters often include their own images religious, historical scenes, actively attract language allegories, type «painting a picture», costumed group portraits devel...

The article continues the research connected with use of systematic model argumentation regard to domain-specific object. Allegorical representations values in works masters various artistic schools, engravings and sculptural images are analyzed. Proverbs sayings being judgments (arguments different levels) special status considered as presuppositions. Principles convictions, aphorisms maxims p...

The proposal seeks to synthesize the ethnonymy present in bibliographic production that mentions or has been produced on indigenous population presently known as Laklãnõ. main time frame begins at start of 19th century, and may mention some previous works, it is concluded with most recent publications. survey not complete encourage exhaustion bibliography order allow a better understanding ethn...

The order-enriched category of monotonic predicate transformers over posets is a model of the reenement calculus of higher order imperative programs and pre-post speciications. This category is shown to be equivalent to the category of spans over ideal relations, and ideal relations are shown to be spans over monotonic functions between posets, using a skew span construction because the standar...

Abstract This paper opens a scholarly discourse about Chinese scholars’ engagement with TWAIL (Third World Approach to International Law). shows that international law scholars and align in their resistance Eurocentrism law, while they differ attitude towards whether refrain from “national allegories” criticize as state-centric invention. A approach means mainstream lawyers tend adopt pragmatic...

Popularized by Hulu’s television adaptation, the allegories and iconography of The Handmaid’s Tale have been used in women’s reproductive rights activism around world. However, at same time, series has recognized critiqued as offering white, conservative feminism. This article explores how adaptation often works to domesticate Margaret Atwood’s novel series’ feminist implications regard reprodu...