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Originally written in 1948-49 when John Rechy (City of Night) was 18 years old, Pablo! was never published and has languished in Special Collections at Boston University. An unusual novel, Rechy uses archetypes to explore Mayan myths, beliefs and rituals.

Allegories. --- Allegory (Art) --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Tales --- Fables --- Parables

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Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully written book, Joan B. Landes explores this paradox within the workings of revolutionary visual culture and traces the interaction between pictorial and textual political arguments. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of the dangers of feminine influence and the seductions of visual imagery. The use of caricatures and allegories contributed to the destruction of the masculinized images of hierarchic absolutism and to forging new roles for men and women in both the intimate and public arenas. Landes tells the fascinating story of how the depiction of the nation as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism and to bind male subjects to the nation-state. Despite their political subordination, women too were invited to identify with the project of nationalism. Recent views of the French Revolution have emphasized linguistic concerns; in contrast, Landes stresses the role of visual cognition in fashioning ideas of nationalism and citizenship. Her book demonstrates as well that the image is often a site of contestation, as individual viewers may respond to it in unexpected, even subversive, ways.

Human body --- Allegories. --- Sex role in art. --- Nationalism and art --- Art --- Art, French --- Symbolic aspects --- History --- Political aspects --- France --- Art and the revolution.

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In this fascinating study Marie Tanner examines the ways in which Titian incorporates new concepts of sensuality and spirituality in the mythological paintings for King Philip II of Spain. The paintings for Philip II, known as the Poesie, are among the most frequently discussed works of art that address a favored Renaissance theme, the influence of the pagan gods on human actions. The commission is traceable to 1549, when Emperor Charles V summoned the artist to Augsburg following Prince Philip’s triumphal parade through the empire as his father’s heir apparent. The cycle that took shape comprises Danae and Venus and Adonis (Madrid, Prado); Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland); Perseus and Andromeda (London, Wallace Collection) and Europa (Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum). These masterpieces of the artist’s mature period can be considered the most important Renaissance grouping of mythological paintings executed by a single artist. The author proposes that Philip’s expected elevation prompted the commission and that the subjects form a cohesive program of Hapsburg ethical views and political concerns, and that Titian created new visual idioms to represent the complex issues which the subjects address in part by engaging themes with a significant prior history in family patronage. While Titian's Poesie for Philip II are well known monuments of western culture, they have never before been investigated with this focus. The dispersal of the pictures' in the seventeenth century resulted in a scholarly focus on the single pictures and a concentration on their sensual aspects. In Aretino, a Venetian dialogue on painting, Titian’s friend and apologist Lodovico Dolce is a spokesman for art that following poetry, entices through beauty, while hiding important truths beneath the veil of allegory. This study analyzes the ways in which Titian incorporates new concepts of sensuality and spirituality in a Venetian vernacular to create masterpieces whose originality and ravishing beauty belie their didactic content.

mythology [literary genre] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Philip II [King of Spain] --- Titian --- Titian, --- Painting --- legendary beings --- Charles V [Holy Roman emperor] --- Allegories --- Symbolism in art --- Allegory (Art) --- Signs and symbols in art --- Art --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Tales --- Fables --- Parables --- Philip --- Filips --- Felipe --- Filipe --- Philippe --- Filippe --- Philips --- Fīlīb --- Philipp --- Filippo --- Ticijan, --- Titiano Vecellio, --- Titianus, --- Titien, --- Tit︠s︡ian, --- Tizian, --- Tiziano, --- Tiziano Vecelli, --- Tycjan, --- Vecelli, Tiziano, --- Vecellio, Tiziano, --- Vechellio, Tit︠s︡iano, --- Art patronage. --- Art, Italian --- Allegories. --- Symbolism in art. --- Titiaan --- Titien --- Tizian --- di Gregorio Vecellio, Tiziano --- Sublime, the --- Titian, - approximately 1488-1576

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What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes’ use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes’ philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.

Fables. --- Imagination (Philosophy) --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Philosophy --- Didactic literature --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Legends --- Literature --- Tales --- Allegories --- Parables --- Phenomenology . --- Metaphysics. --- Ontology. --- Literature, Modern. --- European literature. --- Books-History. --- Phenomenology. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- European Literature. --- History of the Book. --- European literature --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Being --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Philosophy, Modern --- Books—History. --- Fables, French --- Philosophy, French --- Cartesian linguistics --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650