- language. In
discussing the
richly allusive poetry of Virgil's Georgics, R. F.
Thomas distinguished six
categories of
allusive reference,
which are applicable...
- The
Allusions were an
Australian rock group,
which formed in late 1965. They
released a self-titled
studio album in
January 1967 via EMI/Parlophone. Their...
-
wrote of "the
elegant fluency of a
practised Lothario".
Because of the
allusive use the name
sometimes is not capitalised.
Giacomo Casanova Don Juan Lotario...
- Tories, and the
character referred to as
Flimnap is
often interpreted as an
allusion to Sir
Robert Walpole, a
British statesman and Whig
politician who Swift...
- hold off
their attackers. The
surviving text is
tantalisingly brief and
allusive, but
comparison with
other references in Old
English poetry,
notably Beowulf...
-
eclecticism in art.
Allusion is not pastiche. A
literary allusion may
refer to
another work, but it does not
reiterate it.
Allusion requires the audience...
-
decorative tankards, they are
often decorated in a
nostalgic manner with
allusions to Germany. The
English word is
attested from 1855. It is
borrowed from...
-
Glory is a 1940
novel by
British author Graham Greene. The
title is an
allusion to the
doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine...
- anagogical. In
Kabbalah the four
meanings of the
biblical texts are literal,
allusive, allegorical, and mystical. In Judaism,
bible hermeneutics notably uses...
-
shelves for
holding china, ornaments, trifles, or "what nots",
hence the
allusive name. In its
English form, it is a
convenient piece of
drawing room furniture...
