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Banana Parable
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Banana Parable The banana parable is found both in A Treatise on Money (Keynes 1930) and in John...that was brought out in Keynes ’ s “ banana parable. ” In the story Keyes envisions a simple economy that...
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parable
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
parable the term translates the Hebrew...rhetorical tradition, however, "parables" were illustrative narrative...used in the Gospels, the "parable" not only denotes metaphors...illustrative narratives. In Jesus' parables, the speaker compares an...
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Bernard Malamud
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...frequently interlaced, have been compared to parables, myths, and allegories and often illustrate...ordinary people, Malamud creates beautiful parables that capture the joy as well as the pain...story of torture and humiliation into a parable of human triumph. With The Tenants...
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MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...renowned as an outstanding writer of radio documentaries and radio parable plays; these include Christopher Columbus (1944) and his...abridged version of Goethe's Faust (1951), and Varieties of Parable (from the 1963 Clark lectures) and a volume of autobiography...
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Kahlil Gibran
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the American firm of Alfred A. Knopf. The sometimes cynical parables and poems on justice, freedom, and God are illustrated by...sold over 1,000 copies in three months. The slim volume of parables, illustrated with Gibran's drawings, is one of America...
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Sympathy
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...famous illustration of this response occurs in the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, where a certain Samaritan stops to...the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Sympathy, then, as this parable suggests, is a kind of positive response to another ’...
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Hersey, John (Richard)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...of his experiences; The Child Buyer (1960), a satirical parable about modern education, which tells of a governmental buyer...dramatized by Paul Shyre (1964); White Lotus (1965), a parable of race relations, treating a mythical Oriental land in which...
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Nathan, Robert (Gruntal)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...converted Jew in a Calvinist heaven; One More Spring (1933), a parable of Christian charity; Road of Ages (1935), about an imagined...The Train in the Meadow (1953); Sir Henry (1955), a parable about an aging, moonstruck knight; Rancho of the Little Loves...
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Bruegel Family
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...on the Sea of Tiberius (1553) and the Landscape with the Parable of the Sower (1557), are within the world-landscape tradition...1568). In paintings like The Cripples (1568) and The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind (1569), Bruegel returned...
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Thurber, James (Grover)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Ross (1959). His essays, sketches, fables, stories, parables, and reminiscences, illustrated by his distinctive and fluid...popularizations of psychology; The Last Flower (1939), an ironic parable of modern war; Fables for Our Time, and Famous Poems Illustrated...
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