One Ideals Elevating Reality.- Allegorical Journeys toward the Wholeness and Unity of the Sea: Marguerite Yourcenar.- Life and Myth: The Mother in Chinghiz Aitmatov's Literary Creation.- In Humble Conformity: Cipher and Vision in Jorge Guillen's Poetry.- Women in Taser Desk (The Land of Cards): Tagorean Ideals towards Humanistic Liberation.- Two The Mysteries of Life Enhanced.- War and the Body in Lysistrata: Marriage and the Family under Siege.- Allegorical Time.- The Roman de la rose: Psychological Interiority in Medieval Allegory.- Allegory in the Work of Philippe de Mezieres.- Allegory and the Performative in Jacques le Fataliste.- Subjective Experience in Allegorical Worlds: Four Old French Literary Examples.- Three Freedom, Destiny, The Soaring of the Soul.- Type and Concept in Lazarillo de Tormes: Self-Knowledge and the Spanish Picaresque Narrative.- Ortega y Gasset, Phenomenology and Quixote.- Music and Language in Joyce's "The Dead".- Between the Acts: Virginia Woolf's Modern Allegory.- Camus' Caligula: An Allegory?.- Beckett's Waiting for Godot as Allegory.- A Poetics of Absence: Kabbalist Allegory in the Poetry of Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes, and David Meltzer.- Nouvelle Approche a l'Allegorie avec Reference a Octavio Paz et Marin Sorescu.- Four Allegory, A Literary Enigma.- The Broken Allegory: Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child as Narrative Theodicy.- Ricoeur's "Allegory" and Jakobson's Metaphoric/Metonymic Principles.- The Radiant Veil: Persistence and Permutations.- Imagery and Allegory in Philosophy.- One Face Less: Masks, Time and the Telling of Stories in Tahar ben Jelloun's The Sand Child.- Literary Criticism as Allegory: Sartre's Saint Genet.- Five Annex.- The Fragmentation and Social Reconstruction of the Past in Toni Morrison's Beloved.- "We Are Not the Same": Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay and the Phenomenological Reduction.- Explanation, Understanding and Incommensurability in Psychoanalysis.- Some Remarks on the Application of Ingarden's Theory to Film Studies.- Phenomenology and Matthew Arnold: An Uncollected Episode.- Index of Names.