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Allegorization

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al·le·go·rize  (l-gô-rz, -g-, -g-)
v. al·le·go·rized, al·le·go·riz·ing, al·le·go·riz·es
v.tr.
1. To express as or in the form of an allegory: a story of barnyard animals that allegorizes the fate of Soviet socialism.
2. To interpret allegorically: allegorize the quest for the Holy Grail as an inner spiritual search.
v.intr.
To use or make allegory: sculptors who rendered the moral world by allegorizing.
alle·gori·zation (-gôr-zshn, -gr, -gr) n.
alle·go·rizer n.


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One essay entirely out of place here is Joseph Ricapito's allegorization of Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea.
Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain by Cruz, Anne J. / Renaissance Quarterly
The earliest possible evidence of Jewish allusions to the Canticle as allegorization of mystical marriage between God and Israel is attributed in Talmudic sources to Rabbi Akiba in the early second century, and the full-blown allegorization of the targum on the Canticle dates no earlier than the early Islamic period, by which time this interpretation was well established in Jewish biblical scholarship (Murphy: 11-41; Pope: 89-112).
The Bride of Christ (Ephesians 5:22-33): a problematic wedding by Osiek, Carolyn / Biblical Theology Bulletin
The visual feast of colored light, created in four standard, factory-issue hues, resists transcendental allegorization as profoundly as do Matisse's blue and yellow stained-glass windows in the chapel at Vence; the color pairings are distributed throughout the work without apparent explanation, satisfying only the most basic requirement of variation.
DAN FLAVIN by LUMPKIN, LIBBY / Artforum International
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