I.- Allegory and Maxim: Power and Faith, Passions and Virtues.- Allegory and the Dramatic Foundations of the Medieval Theater.- Balzac's Allegories of Energy in La Comédie Humaine.- Oracle et allégorie dans l'Andromède de Pierre Corneille.- Allegory Then and Now: The Physician and Disease.- Michael Drayton's 'Ideas' and the 'Where' and the 'Whence' of Allegory.- II.- Les Conquêtes de la Toison d'or of 1661 and 1683: The Breakdown of the Sun Allegory.- Le jeu allégorique chez Poussin: Les Putti comme emblème dans Tancrède et Herminie (Birmingham).- Michel Butor's L'Embarquement de la Reine de Saba: An Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience.- Paul de Man and the Question of 'Domination Free' Allegory.- Allegory, You Are Woman.- III.- L'allégorie du mal. Deux époques, deux perspectives.- From Metaphor to Matter: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and the Subject of Sight.- Paranoia and the Aesthetics of Chaos in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.- Metaphoric and Metonymic Allegory: Ricoeur, Jakobson, and the Poetry of W. B. Yeats.- The Transformed and Transforming Image in the Shift from Print to Digital Culture.- IV.- Billy Budd: An Allegory on the Rights of Man.- Political Allegory: Bakhtin, Jameson and Birago Diop's Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba.- The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percy's Will Barrett.- The Possibility of a Phenomenology of the Text. From and Against Postmodernism.- Gustav Mahler's Ich binder Welt abhanden gekommen as Song and Symphonic Movement: Abduction, Over-Coding, and Catachresis.- Madana (the Mythical Love-God) in Kalidasa and Tagore.- Annex.- Freedom and Creativity.- Index of Names.