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Add new Web site: CORE - A Community of Voices: Using Allegory as an Interpretive Device in Action Research on Organizational Change. Nov 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - The Age of Allegory. Sep 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Oregon State University - College of Liberal Arts - What is an Allegory? | Definition & Examples. Mar 15, 2023
Corrected display issue. May 29, 2019
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Allegory. Apr 10, 2017
Article revised. May 01, 2015
Media added. May 01, 2015
Article revised and updated. Nov 01, 2007
Article revised. Mar 16, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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