Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work. As an adjective applied to writing or literary works, abstract refers to words or phrases that name things not knowable through the five senses. Allegory: A narrative technique in which characters representing objects or abstract ideas are used to convey a message or teach a lesson. Allegory is typically used to tea...

To reach its potential wildlife management needs a coherent purpose. Traditional divisions between science, society, and nature, however, create conflicts between responsibility to science, the public, and nature. These divisions emerged as early as Plato’s (400 BC) allegory of the cave. In Plato’s allegory human society existed inside a cave formed by its own delusions, and a philosopher or sc...

Abstract This text introduces the symposium on Fredric Jameson’s Allegory and Ideology (2019), second volume in his six-part The Poetics of Social Forms . It frames debate with a brief exploration some figures problems allegory that appear across œuvre , surveys Marxist conceptualisations have shaped approach, as it straddles allegories commodity utopia. musical investigation nexus affect, pres...

The concept of “national allegory” formulated in Fredric Jameson’s work on the third-world literatures has been subject much critical debate, especially context postcolonial studies. dispute surrounding term is closely tied to controversial suggestions such as view that “all” literary texts inevitably fall into category allegory”. “nation” this sense provides main conceptual framework out which...

L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has become popular as a teaching tool in economics. It has been argued that it was written as an allegory of Populist demands for a bimetallic monetary system in the late 19th century. The author argues that Baum was not sympathetic to Populist views and did not write the story as a monetary allegory.

A Dedekind category (locally complete division allegory) D is a category satisfying the following: