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2. The Lady of Shalott: Themes of Isolation, Artistry, and the Quest for Freedom.
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Smitha, G.
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LIBERTY ,FEMININITY ,SYMBOLISM in literature - Abstract
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's narrative poem The Lady of Shalott explores profound themes of isolation, artistry, and the quest for freedom against the backdrop of Victorian societal norms. Tennyson, renowned for his lyrical language and introspective style, crafts a haunting tale of a cursed woman confined to a tower on the island of Shalott. Forbidden to directly observe the outside world, the Lady weaves scenes reflected in a mirror, navigating between artistic expression and the stifling constraints of her existence. This article delves into Tennyson's portrayal of the Lady's isolation, emphasizing how her imprisonment symbolizes not only physical confinement but also psychological and emotional barriers. Through meticulous analysis of Tennyson's imagery, narrative techniques, and thematic exploration, the article examines the Lady's tragic journey towards self-discovery and transcendence, ultimately revealing broader insights into Victorian notions of femininity, the power of art, and the perennial human desire for autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
3. Exploring Voices of Symbolism in Najwa Zebian's The Nectar of Pain.
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Younas, Shehriyar, Ali, Afaq, and Noor, Huzaifa
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SYMBOLISM in literature ,LITERARY explication ,POETRY (Literary form) ,REVENGE in literature - Abstract
This study aims to analyze the symbols used in Najwa Zebian's book of poetry called "The Nectar of Pain" to uncover themes of human's feelings and emotions. The poetess is a Lebanese who wrote her poetry after she was betrayed by her lover. She was in trauma due to her lover's disloyalty. She wrote her poetry to express her feelings of pain, hope, revenge and love. Therefore, her poetry expresses her post-traumatic condition through figures of speech and symbols. This study analyzed symbols through close reading technique. After the analysis, this study shows that the poetess has expressed many themes through the use of symbols. This analysis revealed dominant themes of her poetry are revenge, self-identity, betrayal, hope and hypocrisy and double standards of her lover. Key symbols used are "rose," "heart," "flower," "darkness," "sky," "pearls," "home" and "bird." To address the emotional turmoil reflected in her work, readers could explore therapeutic practices like journaling or poetry workshops that healing through creative expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Mythopoetic Basis and Symbolic World of Images in the Novel Shiliin Bogd by the Mongolian Writer G. Mend-Ooyo
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Elizaveta E. Baldanmaksarova
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mongolian literature ,g. mand-ooyo ,historical novel ,shiliin bogd ,mongolian mythology ,symbolism in literature ,buddhism ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
The article examines the mythopoetic basis and the symbolic world of images in the historical novel Shiliyn Bogd (2015) by the Mongolian writer G. Mend-Ooyoo (1952). The mythopoetic and mytho-religious traditions of the Mongolian peoples, due to historical and cultural development, represent an established holistic worldview with a systemic picture of the world, with aesthetic and philosophical ideas about the profane and sacred, about the material and fabulous, rational and mystical, about the visible world and the other world, parallel invisible layer of being. The basis of the novel Mand-Ooyoo, as a complete work of art, is a mythopoetic pictorial dominant that expresses the author’s integral understanding of the essence of the surrounding reality. It is expressed in two interrelated and complementary aspects: epistemological and axiological. When analyzing the novel, it seems extremely important to focus on the second aspect because it is the system of artistic values and its role in creating the mythopoetic basis and the symbolic world of images that are dominant.
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- 2024
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5. Semiotic function of toponyms in 'tales of peculiar' by Ransom Riggs
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Aleksenko, Vitaliia, Chikarkova, Mariia, Skobnikova, Oksana, Stehnitska, Liubov, and Davydenko, Nataliia
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- 2022
6. Guide to a better understanding and appreciation of manga texts
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Sly, Cathy
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- 2022
7. Shepard's Desolate Deserts: The Place Where Finitude Meets Revival.
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Hachlerová, Nela
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DESERTS ,SYMBOLISM in literature - Abstract
This article addresses the literary symbolism of the desert landscape in combination with an ecocritical perspective and subsequently proceeds to analyze selected plays by Sam Shepard, focusing on the significance of the desert landscape, which has a profound impact on the psyches of his characters. Sam Shepard, as an author of American myths, adds an ancient and mystical quality to his desert environment, which intricately contributes to the development of the protagonists' identities. The Western viewpoint of the desert as a place of danger and death is compared and contrasted with the spiritual potential of this arid land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. Exploring the Literary Legacy of Kamala Das: A Multifaceted Journey into Love, Identity, and Societal Challenge.
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Y. N., Riyana
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INDIC women authors ,GENDER identity ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,LOVE in literature ,SOCIAL norms - Abstract
This article delves into the multifaceted literary contributions of Kamala Das, an influential Indian English poet, memoirist, and novelist. Das, also known by her pen name Madhavikutty, challenged societal norms and explored themes of love, sexuality, gender, and identity through her bold and confessional writing. Her literary journey, which began with the publication of Summer in Calcutta (1965), gained widespread recognition with subsequent works such as My Story (1976), an autobiography that sparked significant controversy for its candid portrayal of Das’s personal life. Throughout her career, Das continued to push boundaries with her fearless exploration of taboo subjects and her unwavering commitment to challenging societal expectations. This article examines the various facets of Das’s literary oeuvre, including her poetry collections such as The Descendants (1967) and The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973), as well as her contributions to feminist discourse and postcolonial literature. Special attention is given to Das’s acclaimed poem My Grandmother's House, which serves as a focal point for exploring themes of cultural heritage, identity, memory, and belonging. Through a comparative analysis of Das’s work with other poems, this article illuminates the universal human experience of navigating the intersections of past, present, and future, and the tangible and intangible realms of existence. Kamala Das’s legacy as a fearless and influential writer continues to resonate with readers around the world, leaving behind a profound impact on the landscape of Indian literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
9. Chiastic Patterns, Number Symbolism, and Marian Echoes in Chaucer.
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Engel, William E.
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EXTRAVAGANCE in literature ,ENGLISH poets ,INTELLECTUAL life ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,MNEMONICS - Published
- 2024
10. Politics of Symbolising Female Characters in Paulo Coelho's By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept.
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Sebastian, Rajat
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WOMEN in literature ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,POLITICAL science ,POLITICIANS - Abstract
Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho's works are generally known for inspiring readers and using literary symbols to narrate complex philosophical concepts. Out of the seventeen works of Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept describes the conflicts faced by two lovers who are brought together by fate after eleven years. Re-joined, they set out for an excursion together as the issues in their relationship emerge again. Though Coelho explicitly uses water as a literary symbol in the novel, this paper closely analyses how the female characters in the same novel are also symbolised, making them symbols of self-submission. It thereby probes the complexity of the connection between female characters and water as literary symbols within the same context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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11. Bird-catching as a love allegory: A comparison of Greco-Roman and early modern English literature
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Green, Ashleigh
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- 2023
12. Die Rolle der Farben in ausgewählten Erzählungen von Stanislav Struhar.
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DVORNYCKA, GABRIELA
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SYMBOLISM in literature , *COLOR , *SYMBOLISM - Abstract
This study explores the thematic and symbolic meanings of colours in selected prose texts by Stanislav Struhar, an Austrian author of Czech origin. A detailed analysis of the selected works - the short story volumes Farben der Vergangenheit (2016) and Farben der Zukunft (2021) - reveals how Struhar employs colours as narrative tools to evoke moods, develop characters, and deepen leitmotif themes. The colours white, black, red, blue, and green hold particular significance in Struhar's work. This article investigates the roles these colours play in the overall structure of his prose texts and questions whether Struhar adheres to or consciously deviates from traditional colour symbolism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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13. Exploring the Role of Food in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
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HOYTE-WEST, Antony
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SYMBOLISM in literature , *WEIGHT gain , *MUSIC teachers , *POPULAR culture , *TWENTIETH century - Abstract
First published in 1961, Muriel Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is one of the most well-known works of 20th-century British literature, and the book’s portrayal of the eponymous Edinburgh schoolmistress and her select clique of pupils during the turbulent 1930s now forms part of contemporary popular culture. After presenting a quick panorama of the author and the work, this article adopts a bipartite approach to describe the role of food at different junctures in the narrative. Initially, it focuses on the types of foods presented and the occasions where they are served (for example, as high teas), thereby seeking to outline whether any wider literary symbolism can be detected. Subsequently, the article examines the unusual role of food and foodstuffs in Miss Brodie’s romantic relationship with Mr Lowther, the school’s music teacher, a liaison which is ostensibly centred around her focus on him consuming large quantities of food in order to gain weight. These two sets of food-related observations are then interpreted, analysed, and summarised before further suggestions for additional research on the topic are outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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14. At Midnight I Rise: The Symbolism of Midnight in the Assertion of Jewish-Christian Difference.
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Polyakov, Emma O'Donnell
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JEWISH communities , *CHRISTIAN communities , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *TIME perspective , *PRIMITIVE & early church, ca. 30-600 - Abstract
This essay explores the negotiation of Jewish-Christian difference in the beginning of the Common Era through a comparative study of the symbolic associations of midnight. It comparatively analyzes references to midnight in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as their later reception in Jewish and Christian communities, with attention to how the early Christian community adopted Jewish traditions of time and revised them to reinforce emerging Christian concepts. This essay proposes that the divergent symbolic associations of midnight in the two canons illustrate some of the central concerns and self-understandings of early Christian and Jewish communities, which became thematic in the assertion of Jewish-Christian difference during the parting of the ways. It demonstrates that the midnight passages are thematically linked as a time of transformation, but the content of that transformation differs between the two canons, reflecting themes of concern to the communities that developed the texts. Across the passages in the Hebrew Bible, midnight appears to be symbolic of a transformation that leads to the creation or strengthening of the people of Israel. In contrast to the national transformation envisioned in the Hebrew Bible, references to midnight in the New Testament are thematically related in their presentation of midnight as a time of eschatological transformation, symbolizing the turning point from this world to the next world, and reflecting an emerging religious tradition focused on a redemption beyond worldly time. This essay argues that these distinct thematic associations present concepts of transformation that were asserted during the parting of the ways, as the two religious traditions formulated parameters around their identities. It concludes with an exploration of two distinct temporal visions that eventually emerged as the two traditions separated, drawing parallels [End Page 1] between the literary symbolism of midnight in the biblical text and later developments in Jewish and Christian perspectives on time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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15. Calligraphic Ideograms, Plastic Poems, Spatialism, and Self-Referentiality: The Evolution of Japanese Concrete and Visual Poetry.
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Tornatore-Loong, Maria
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JAPANESE language ,POETRY (Literary form) ,ART ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,FRENCH poets - Abstract
This article explores the evolution of Japanese concrete and visual poetry from the early 1920s until the 1970s. Even though Japanese poets were initially inspired by French Symbolism and the literary, phonetic, and visual tendencies of Dada and surrealism, their transcultural, multilingual, ideological, and theoretical exchanges with Western modernist literary figures like Ezra Pound and the pioneers of the international vanguard concrete poetry movement, including the Brazilian Noigandres group, Eugen Gomringer, Luís Carlos Vinholes, and the French poet Pierre Garnier, were equally influential in developing their poetic métiers. With their experimental and innovative concrete and visual poetry, Japanese poets like Kitasono Katué, Niikuni Seiichi, Fujitomi Yasuo, Kamimura Hirō, and Yoshizawa Shoji created works that incorporated poetry with the visual arts, revolutionizing the distinctions between "word" and "visual object," and literary and aesthetic discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. Ingesting Words: Ingesting Words: Reading per diletto and Sacramental Memory in Dante's Commedia.
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FANUCCHI, SONIA
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LORD'S Supper , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *SACRAMENTS , *READING exercises , *COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
The article discusses the memorial function of reading in Dante's Commedia and its connection to the sacramental dimensions of the Eucharist, highlighting how reading and the Eucharist both invoke embodied presences and personal interactions with history. Topics include the symbolic connection between books and the sacraments, the power of sacramental language in texts, and the way reading renews and reconfigures the past in a manner similar to the Eucharist's time-altering effect.
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- 2023
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17. Pragmática y simbolización: Una propuesta de análisis de poemas de Juan Eduardo Cirlot.
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Frühbeck Moreno, Carlos
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SYMBOLISM in literature , *PRAGMATICS , *PERMUTATIONS , *SIGNS & symbols , *POETRY (Literary form) , *COGNITION - Abstract
This article proposes a new theoretical approach to the study of literary symbolism, using Relevance Theory, Lexical Pragmatics, and second-generation cognitive sciences. It argues that the meaning of a literary symbol consists of the tension between a "literal" meaning and an unparaphrasable abstract meaning. Furthermore, it maintains that the literary symbol requires a specific communicative context, called "symbolic reading". This theoretical framework is applied to the analysis of the works of Juan Eduardo Cirlot, with special attention to his permutation poetry. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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18. Reading Richard III and the Tower of London
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Kristen Deiter and Kristen Deiter
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- English drama--17th century--History and criticism, English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism, Symbolism in literature, Literature and society--England--History--16th century
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This is the first book on Richard III and the Tower of London, shedding new light on the King's reputation, the Castle's lore, and early modern literature's role in building associations between them. It is also one of the first books to integrate conceptual blending theory and spatial literary studies, empowering scholars and students to analyze literature and locations in new ways. This book fills gaps in the existing knowledge about both Richard III and the Tower of London. Neither literary nor historical scholarship has treated the process through which Richard III and the Tower became associated in the cultural and historical imagination and how such representations have shaped the King's reputation and the Castle's lore. This study analyzes this process while offering new understandings of Richard III as a literary character in prose, drama, and poetry and extending knowledge about the Tower as an iconic literary and cultural symbol.
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- 2025
19. تحلیل محتوایی جریان شعری نمادگرای نسل سوم شعر بعد از نیما.
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لیلا سادات سادات, حسن حیدری, and جلیل مشیدی
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SYMBOLISM in literature ,PERSIAN poetry - Abstract
Symbolism is the art of expressing poetic thoughts and emotions not through open expression, nor through the obvious comparison of those thoughts and emotions to concrete and objective images, but through the subtle hint of special words to create those emotions and thoughts in the reader's mind. In this research, the review and content analysis of the poetic flow of the symbolism of the third generation of poetry after Nima, such as Mohammad Ali Sepanlou, Mansour Ouji, Ali Babachahi and Seyed Ali Salehi, has been investigated and analyzed. The method of discussion and analysis in this research is based and emphasized on the main characteristics of poetry and the attitude of poets, and the quality of symbolization and the formation of symbolic expression of each poet has been analyzed and investigated in accordance with his mental characteristics and special worldview. The research method is analytical-descriptive and based on library sources and poetic works of the discussed poets, and the results show that the symbolism of the third-generation poets after Nima is conscious and is done in order to strengthen the content of the poem and has meaning in terms of structure. The generation has been more limited to the previous periods. Also, the variety of historical and mythological symbols, social, natural, animal symbols and religious and religious symbols show the mastery of the poets in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. Botanical symbolism in the Hypnerotomachia: botanical signifiers of a humanist handling of interior transformation.
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O'neill, James Calum
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PLANTS in literature , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *HUMANISM in literature , *RENAISSANCE literature , *MEDIEVAL literature - Abstract
This article focuses on the botanical specimens and their symbolic purpose in the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499). It examines the questions as to why certain plants are positioned at certain narrative stages, and how the relationship between their aesthetic, medical, literary, and symbolic purpose fits with the narrative. It also examines how this ratiocination of reflecting a developing topography with the interior development of the soul is handled in a wholly humanist–Renaissance manner over earlier treatments of botany in the medieval philosophical dream allegories such as Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose and Brunetto Latini's Il Tesoretto, or the pre-medieval Prudentius's Psychomachia.1 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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21. Deaf Characters in Literature
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Paul Dakin, Author and Paul Dakin, Author
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- Deaf people in literature, American literature--History and criticism, English literature--History and criticism, Symbolism in literature, Sign language
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This book presents the most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining British and American examples found in novels, comics, poetry, television and film, the work identifies significant trends and themes that range from the last three hundred years to the present day. It is centered on an understanding of the history and development of deaf education, its impact on the use of oral speech and sign language, and the rise of deaf.
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- 2023
22. Allegorie, Symbol, Ding : Deutschsprachige Gegenstandslyrik von Goethe bis Rilke
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Traian-Ioan Geana and Traian-Ioan Geana
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- Symbolism in literature, German poetry--History and criticism
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Ausgehend von den Begriffen ›Allegorie‹, ›Symbol‹ und ›Ding‹ entwirft der vorliegende Band ein idealtypisches Modell, das über die Grenzen des Begriffs ›Dinggedicht‹ hinaus dem komplexen Umgang mit der Bedeutsamkeit von Gegenständen in der Lyrik gerechter werden soll. Die drei großen Abschnitte bestehen jeweils aus einem problemgeschichtlichen und einem praxisbezogenen Teil. In Anlehnung an die begriffsevolutionäre Theorie Stephen Toulmins zeichnen die problemgeschichtlichen Teile die Entwicklung der Begriffe ›Allegorie‹, ›Symbol‹ und ›Ding‹ mit Blick auf Gegenstandsbedeutsamkeit von der Antike bis um 1900 in wesentlichen Zügen nach. In den praxisbezogenen Teilen werden Gedichte über Gegenstände analysiert; dabei wird das anfangs erwähnte idealtypische Modell auf die Gedichte angewendet, jedoch unter der prinzipiellen Priorisierung der erörterten problemgeschichtlichen Aspekte. Neben deutschsprachigen Gedichten von Goethe bis Rilke, die überwiegend im Fokus stehen, werden auch exemplarische Texte aus anderen Epochen und Disziplinen (u.a. von antiken Epigrammatikern, Brockes, Shelley, Baudelaire) herangezogen, um das Forschungsinteresse an Gegenstandslyrik jenseits der Neuphilologie/Germanistik zu verbreitern.
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- 2023
23. Qurʾanic Textuality and The Potential of Aesthetic (Jamālī) Interpretation.
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Abou-Bakr, Omaima
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AESTHETICS , *GENDER inequality , *INCOME inequality , *SOCIAL justice , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *PATRIARCHY , *WORLDVIEW - Abstract
More scholarship centering coherence and unity followed, including the studies of Mustansir Mir (b. 1949) on the " I sura i as a unity", I al-Wa da al-Bina iyya li-l-Qur an al-Majid i (Structural Unity of the Glorious Qur an, 2006), by Taha Jabir Alalwani (1935-2016), and Salwa El-Awa's I Textual Relations in the Qur an i (2006). At the other end of the spectrum from the extra-qur anic material and women's lived reality is qur anic textuality. Mu yiddin Ibn Arabi (560-638 H/1165-1240 CE), in his treatise I Kitab al-Jalal wa-l-Jamal i (Book of Majesty and Beauty) composed in 602 H/1205 CE, evokes the two main categories of Divine Attributes/Qualities as a qur anic hermeneutic.[4] Every verse can embody this dual nature or ambivalence, eliciting a double, simultaneous effect upon a reader's heart. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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24. El Magdalena, río de tumbas y ánimas benditas: las persistencias de las memorias.
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Herrera, Martha Cecilia and Carrillo, Alfonso Torres
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POLITICAL violence , *ARTISTIC creation , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *VIOLENCE , *METAPHOR , *VIOLENCE in motion pictures , *IMAGINATION - Abstract
This article presents a reflection on the imaginaries and symbolism present in some artistic creations (literature, visual and film) about the recent violence in Colombia, in which the Magdalena River has been a protagonist and in which can be seen the persistence of memories in the beliefs and representations of the riverside populations. Four aesthetic productions are analyzed that emphasize the river and the presence therein of spiritual and mythological beings in the discussed narrative corpus in order to recognise the metaphors and symbolism present in the literary and audiovisual narratives regarding political violence. This makes it possible to make an interpretive account with reference to the conceptual perspective of symbolic imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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25. Hápax en las comedias de Nevio con fonomímesis.
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Ballester, Xaverio
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LATIN literature ,GREEK literature ,SOUND symbolism ,POETS ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,CORPORA ,COMEDY - Abstract
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- 2023
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26. Iniciální konsonantické fonestémy v češtině.
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SLÁMA, Jakub
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SYMBOLISM in literature ,CONSONANTS ,LEXICON ,SOUND symbolism ,LANGUAGE & languages - Abstract
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- 2023
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27. The Unicorn Trade: Towards a Cultural History of the Mass-Market Unicorn.
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Miller, Timothy S.
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SYMBOLISM in literature ,CULTURAL history ,MASS markets - Abstract
As genre fantasy congealed around a Tolkienian core in the middle decades of the 20th century, two fantastical creatures emerged as the dominant emblems of the form: the dragon and the unicorn. Either one might serve to adorn genre labels on the spines of library books, or act as the colophon for a publisher’s fantasy line. Dipping in and out of touchstone texts in the fantasy tradition such as Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn and Michael Bishop’s Unicorn Mountain, this essay will commence a preliminary exploration of the wider mass cultural adoption of one of these two creatures, the unicorn, with its distinctively fantastic iconography. In the last decade, the unicorn has established itself as a kind of genericized trademark, an instantly recognizable image used to market a variety of products. One can, for example, walk down grocery store aisles lined with unicorn breakfast cereal, unicorn frozen waffles, and unicorn desserts of all kinds, and there is a much longer prehistory behind this commoditization of the unicorn and its connections to fantasy, from the psychedelic rainbow aesthetic of American designer Lisa Frank -- which ubiquitously decorated young girl’s school supplies in the 1990s -- to the explosive global growth of the My Little Pony brand in the early 21st century. I will trace the refraction of the unicorn into such commercial spaces from its various overlapping instantiations in early genre fantasy: indeed, Karen Anderson’s 1971 poem “The Unicorn Trade” uses the image of the commodified unicorn to reflect on the emergence of fantasy publishing itself in the wake of American “Tolkien-mania” and the launch of the Ballantine Books Adult Fantasy series. In the 1960s, we find that unicorns were simply in the air, appearing prominently in works from writers as different as Angela Carter, Peter Beagle, and Shel Silverstein, and they have never left. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
28. The Discreet Power of Nineteenth-Century Gloves.
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Green, Anne
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GLOVES ,NINETEENTH century ,DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,SOFT power (Social sciences) ,SEDUCTION ,DECEPTION - Abstract
Grenoble's presentation of 300 pairs of embroidered leather gloves to Empress Eugénie in 1860 exemplifies the traditional use of gloves as soft power. But the huge increase in glove-manufacturing and glove-wearing in nineteenth-century France gave gloves greater influence than ever before. As a powerful tool of social discrimination, they could reveal much about the wearer's class, character, habits and morals. Novelists and playwrights soon recognized gloves' potent symbolism: many literary examples portray gloves as agents of seduction, corruption, deceit or humiliation. For some writers, gloves had the power to disturb. For others, they were emblematic of France itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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29. FLORAL SYMBOLISM IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE AND ENGLISH POETRY AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR POETRY TRANSLATION: THE CASE OF LAN 蘭 AND VIOLET.
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Fusheng Wu
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SYMBOLISM ,LANGUAGE & languages ,SYMBOLISM of flowers ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,CHINESE poetry ,ENGLISH poetry ,LITERARY style - Abstract
The article focuses on the use of floral symbolism in traditional Chinese and English poetry, specifically examining the metaphors of lan in Chinese and violets in English. Topics include the exploration of lan's symbolic associations in Chinese poetry, the lasting influence of Qu Yuan's use of lan as a metaphor for virtue, and the implications of overlapping floral symbolism for poetry translation especially concerning conventionalized and archetypal plant names.
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- 2022
30. Light and Divine Wisdom: An Alternative Interpretation of the Iconography of the Fuller Brooch.
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Teresi, Loredana
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OLD English poetry ,TRANSLATIONS ,WISDOM in literature ,SYMBOLISM in literature - Abstract
The Fuller Brooch is considered the earliest English representation of the five senses. The central character, representing sight, is thought to also hold one or more figurative meanings, linked to ideas and concepts that were current in King Alfred's cultural context. These figurative meanings were presumably meant to be emphasised and clarified by the two objects this figure is holding. So far, however, these have not been satisfactorily interpreted, with most scholars tentatively identifying them as plants or cornucopias. This study makes a case for these objects to be torches, embodying the concept of light, so central in the theme of the oculi mentis 'eyes of the mind' and in Alfred's ideas of wisdom and learning. The relevance of divine light in the Alfredian cultural framework emerges clearly from the translations into English of the Soliloquia, of the Consolatio Philosophiae and of the Regula pastoralis. Evidence also emerges from the iconography of the inluminatio 'illumination' of the oculi mentis for the acquisition of divine wisdom featuring in the Utrecht Psalter (and its later copies), and from the iconographical connection between torches, light and God that can be seen in the historiated initial of one of the hymns of the Durham Hymnal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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31. СИМВОЛЪТ КАТО СРЕДСТВО ЗА РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ НА ИНТЕРДИСЦИПЛИНАРЕН ПОДХОД В ОБУЧЕНИЕТО ПО МУЗИКА И БЪЛГАРСКИ ЕЗИК И ЛИТЕРАТУРА В НАЧАЛЕН ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЕН ЕТАП
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Марчева, Пенка
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MULTIPLE intelligences ,SCHOOL children ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,POPULAR music genres ,MUSICAL form - Abstract
The possibilities of symbols as means of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in teaching music and literature in primary education is the topic examined in this publication. This is a topic that is developed relatively rarely in pedagogical literature. In the theoretical aspects of this publication, the main parameters of the interdisciplinary approach, applicable to the education of students in 1st - 4th grades, which can be realized through literary and musical symbolism, are examined. Arguments supporting statements regarding the essence of symbols and the possibility of them functioning as denotation for one of the criteria for the manifestation and functioning of linguistic and musical intelligence, included in H. Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, are brought forth. The focus is on the essence of the two types of symbols - literary and musical as means of forming and developing the respective types of intelligence. The publication also examines some practical and applied aspects, the main emphasis being fairy tales as a literary genre and program music, which are rich in symbolism. Specific approaches to pedagogical interaction are listed such as "building musical characterization of a literary symbol", "making sense of a specific musical work with the help of literary symbols", "using literary symbols to realize musical content". In this way, it is proven that they are a real basis for the implementation of an interdisciplinary educational approach in the education of primary school students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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32. Writing, the Gambler's Art.
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Anuonye, Darlington Chibueze
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NIGERIAN authors , *MAN Booker Prize , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *LITERARY prizes - Abstract
An interview with Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma is presented. Topics include the impact of the Booker Prize recognition on his career, his approach to writing, and the symbolism in his novels, particularly the characterization of nonhuman elements, and his motivation for writing his forthcoming novel, "The Road to the Country," which delves into the Nigerian civil war.
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- 2023
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33. An Interview with Raen Kao: Author of "Papaya Bowl".
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Tang, Claire
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POETS ,POETRY writing ,SYMBOLISM in literature ,PAPAYA - Published
- 2024
34. 'Home' and the narrative of an impossible 'Nostos'
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Rao, Eleonora
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- 2015
35. James Joyce’s Mandala
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Colm O’Shea and Colm O’Shea
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- Symbolism in literature, Mandala
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The Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as'sacred circle.'Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical sophistication, making manifest a geometry with layers of esoteric meaning for both the mandala artist and the initiated spectator. James Joyce's Mandala outlines and explains this iconic sacred geometry, and assesses to what extent Joyce's works of literature, in particular Finnegans Wake, can be understood as mandalic constructs. Using exam-ples from Dubliners to the Wake, we see how fundamental to Joyce's fiction is the issue of spiritual paralysis (a problem the mandala attempts to dissolve) and also how fascinated he was by geometric imagery and symmetry, the technical devices employed in mandala construction. This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce's work with the mythic structure of the mandala. Never discounting the richness of Joyce's genius, it uses his'collideorscape'to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.
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- 2022
36. Dancing the Dharma : Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater
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Susan Blakely Klein and Susan Blakely Klein
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- Symbolism in literature, Theater--Japan--History--To 1600--History and criticism, Japanese drama--1185-1600--History and criticism, No¯, No¯ plays, Allegory
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Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven plays (Maiguruma, Kuzu no hakama, Unrin'in, Oshio, Kakitsubata, Ominameshi, and Haku Rakuten) and two treatises (Zeami's Rikugi and Zenchiku's Meishukushū). In so doing, she shows that it was precisely the allegorical mode—vital to medieval Japanese culture as a whole—that enabled the complex layering of character and poetic landscape we typically associate with noh. Klein argues that understanding noh's allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories. Now viewed in the context of contemporaneous beliefs and practices of the medieval period, noh plays take on a greater range and depth of meaning and offer new insights to readers today into medieval Japan.
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- 2022
37. Twenty-First-Century Symbolism : Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé
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Nikolaj Lübecker and Nikolaj Lübecker
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- Symbolism in literature, French poetry--19th century--History and criticism
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Twenty-First-Century Symbolism was the winner of the 2023 R. Gapper Book Prize. How do the writings of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé speak to our time? Why should we continue to read these poets today? How might a contemporary reading of their poetry differ from readings delivered in previous centuries? Twenty-First-Century Symbolism argues that Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé prefigure a view of human subjectivity that is appropriate for our times: we cannot be separated from the worlds in which we live and evolve; human beings both mediate and are mediations of the environments we traverse and that traverse us, whether these are natural, urban, linguistic, or technological environments. The ambition of the book is therefore twofold: on the one hand, it aims to offer new readings of the three poets, demonstrating their continued relevance for contemporary debates, putting them into dialogue with a philosophical corpus that has not yet played a role in the study of nineteenth century French poetry; on the other, the book relies on the three poets to establish an understanding of human subjectivity that is in tune with our twenty-first century concerns.
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- 2022
38. The Sīmurgh in Chach: bird symbolism in the Rawdat al-fariqayn.
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Saberi-Najafi, Navid
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BIRDS in literature , *ISLAMIC literature , *ISLAMIC law , *SUFISM , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *RELIGIOUS literature ,SALVATION in Islam - Abstract
Modern scholarship has largely neglected Abu'l-Raja' Chachi Khumraki (d. c. 1124 C.E.), although he was well versed in Islamic jurisprudence and esoterism, not to mention his unique interest in classical Persian avian literature, which has not received serious, scholarly attention. To date, no study has discussed the significance of Chachi Khumraki's bird symbolism. This essay focuses upon his conception of salvation in the Rawdat al-fariqayn (The Garden of the Two Schools)—a mysticojurisprudential manual on Islamic law and on Sufism—analyzing the author's deployment of the motif of the Sīmurgh in the chapter entitled 'The Ṣalāt al-khawf [Fear Prayer]'. Further, it argues that the Sīmurgh performs two major functions: First, it attempts to bring together two rivalrous Sunni schools of law, i.e. Hanafism and Shafi'ism, in medieval Transoxania, and second, it warns against neglecting the inner dimension of Islam, i.e. taṣawwuf (Sufism). Whilst the author acknowledges the importance of practising fiqh, the Sīmurgh narrative attempts to draw the schools' attention to the fact that the soul will attain salvation only if it eschews the shackles of the nafs al-ammārah bi'l-sū' (the soul that commands to evil) by means of the teachings of Sufism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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39. La espada como símbolo del destino en la Volsunga saga.
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FERNÁNDEZ MORENO, SERGIO
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SWORDS , *SWORDS in literature , *WEAPONS , *MYTH , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *BRYNHILDR (Norse deity) , *SCANDINAVIANS , *FATE & fatalism , *OLD Norse literature , *FATE & fatalism in literature , *SAGAS - Abstract
Even though the so called fornaldarsogur ('sagas of the ancient times') appeared in Christian Scandinavia during the 12th and 13th centuries, the fact is that the motifs and topics of the ancient Scandinavian myths and legends still play a major role in those literary works. In particular, the fate and the sword are given a prominent place in the Volsunga saga, especially with reference to the Volsungs' deeds and misfortunes. Hence, the aim of this paper is to elucidate to what extent the tale establishes a symbolic relationship between that weapon and the future of two of its main characters: Sigurðr and Brynhildr. After analysing how destiny works in the story, on the one hand, and what the familiar meaning of the Volsung sword is, on the other hand, it will be possible to conclude that the weapon symbolises the tragic and violent separation of the couple in the saga. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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40. Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution : Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm
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Lonny Harrison and Lonny Harrison
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- Intellectuals--Soviet Union, Symbolism in literature, Metaphor in literature, Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism
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Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and an analysis of the language and ideals of the Russian Revolution, from its inception over the long nineteenth century through fruition in early Soviet society. This volume examines metaphors for revolution in the storm, flood, and harvest imagery ubiquitous in Russian literary works. At the same time, it considers the struggle to own the narrative of modernity, including Bolshevik weaponization of language and cultural policy that supported the use of terror and social purging. This uniquely cross-disciplinary study conducts a close reading of texts that use storm, flood, and agricultural metaphors in diverse ways to represent revolution, whether in anticipation and celebration of its ideals or in resistance to the same. A spotlight is given to the lives and works of authors who responded to Soviet authoritarianism by reclaiming the narrative of revolution in the name of personal freedom and restoration of humanist values. Hinging on the clashes of culture wars and class wars and residing at the intersection of ideas at the very core of the fight for modernity, this book provides a critical reading of authoritarian discourse and investigates rare examples of the counter narratives that thrived in spite of their suppression.
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- 2021
41. Buchstäblichkeit und symbolische Deutung : Schriften zur Kulturgeschichte der Literatur
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Matthias Luserke-Jaqui and Matthias Luserke-Jaqui
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc, History, Symbolism in literature, Catharsis, Literature, Modern--History and criticism, German literature--History and criticism, German philology--History, Symbolisme dans la litte´rature, Litte´rature allemande--Histoire et critique
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In diesem grundlegenden Werk geht es um die Darstellung und Interpretation einer Kulturgeschichte der Literatur im Spannungsfeld von buchstäblichem Verstehen und symbolischer Deutung. Ausgangspunkt einer kritischen Diskussion philosophischer und literaturtheoretischer Positionen ist eine Reflexion über das Bild Offenes Buch von Paul Klee. Darauf aufbauend wird eine Poetik der Bedeutungsoffenheit entwickelt, die Philologie als eine Kulturgeschichte der Literatur versteht. An den Leitbegriffen von Poiesis (Philologie als Überlieferungsgeschichte), Katharsis (Philologie als Wirkungsgeschichte) und Aisthesis (Philologie als Deutungsgeschichte) wird das Modell PoiKAi generiert, mit dem sich eine Kulturgeschichte der Literatur schreiben lässt. Umfangreiche Register (Begriffe, Quellentitel, Namen) erschließen das Buch zusätzlich als Enzyklopädie.
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- 2021
42. The Alchemical Harry Potter : Essays on Transfiguration in J.K. Rowling's Novels
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Anne J. Mamary and Anne J. Mamary
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- Change in literature, Metamorphosis in literature, Alchemy in literature, Symbolism in literature
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When Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its'internal logic.'The Philosopher's Stone, known for its power to transform base metals into gold and to give immortality to its maker, is the subject of the conflict between Harry and Voldemort in the first book of the series. But alchemy is not about money or eternal life, it is much more about the transformations of desire, of power and of people--through love. Harry's equally remarkable and ordinary power to love leads to his desire to find but not use the Philosopher's Stone at the start of the series and his wish to end the destructive power of the Elder Wand at the end. This collection of essays on alchemical symbolism and transformations in Rowling's series demonstrates how Harry's work with magical objects, people, and creatures transfigure desire, power, and identity. As Harry's leaden existence on Privet Drive is transformed in the company of his friends and teachers, the Harry Potter novels have transformed millions of readers, inspiring us to find the gold in our ordinary lives.
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- 2021
43. L’imaginaire littéraire du fleuve (19e–21e siècles)
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Fabienne Bercegol, Susanne Friede, Patrick Marot, Martina Meidl, Fabienne Bercegol, Susanne Friede, Patrick Marot, and Martina Meidl
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- Symbolism in literature, Rivers in literature
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C'est à un voyage à travers les œuvres, romans, poèmes, textes méditatifs, inspirés par les R de plusieurs continents, Amérique, Afrique, Asie, Europe, qu'invite ce volume dont l'objectif est de mieux cerner la place particulière qu'occupe le fleuve dans notre culture et de mettre en valeur son potentiel narratif aussi bien que poétique et symbolique. Élément structurant dans bien des fictions de la destinée des personnages, voire de tout un peuple, le fleuve apparaît comme un marqueur identitaire de premier plan par la vaste mémoire historique qu'il charrie, les légendes qu'il inspire, les traditions qui lui sont attachées. Toujours doté de pouvoirs ambivalents, selon qu'il est remonté ou descendu, tantôt nourricier, tantôt destructeur, symbole de l'écoulement du temps et miroir possible d'une permanence, il est souvent vecteur d'une initiation pour celui ou celle qui s'abandonne à son cours et il s'impose comme une image réflexive de la littérature.
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- 2020
44. Et dans l'air immobile tonnent les météores : Poétique des signes dans l'oeuvre de Salvatore Quasimodo
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Héloïse Moschetto and Héloïse Moschetto
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- Senses and sensation in literature, Symbolism in literature
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On observe dans l'oeuvre de Salvatore Quasimodo une inlassable quête de'signes', dont la présence est constante mais la perception changeante. L'objectif de cet ouvrage est double : d'une part, mettre en évidence les causes de cette quête et d'autre part, analyser la façon dont les différents changements de perception des signes correspondent aux différentes étapes d'un parcours initiatique mené par Quasimodo tout au long de sa vie. En même temps qu'il permet de redécouvrir certains aspects de Quasimodo, cet ouvrage aide à mettre en perspective l'image figée et souvent faussée qu'a laissée à la postérité ce poète tourmenté.
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- 2020
45. Mandelstam, Blok, and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism
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Stuart Goldberg and Stuart Goldberg
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- Russian poetry--20th century--History and crit, Symbolism in literature, Mandel'shtam, Osip--1891-1938--Criticism and, Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich--1880-1921--Cr
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“Mandelstam had no teacher,” marveled Anna Akhmatova, reflecting on his early maturity and singularity. But Mandelstam himself spoke of the need and even duty to study a poet's literary roots. So how did this consummately complex, compelling, multi-resonant poet navigate and exploit the burden of the Russian Symbolist movement from which he emerged? How did this process change and augment his poetry? Through a series of illuminating readings, Stuart Goldberg explores the ongoing role that the poetry of Russian Symbolism played in Osip Mandelstam's creative life, laying bare the poet's productive play with distance and immediacy in his assimilation of the Symbolist heritage. At the same time, Mandelstam, Blok, and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism presents the first coherent narrative of the poet's fraught relationship with Alexander Blok, the most powerful poetic voice among the Symbolists. This dialogue, which was largely one-sided, extended beyond poetic intertext into the realms of poetics, charisma, and personality. Goldberg's study pushes theoretical boundaries, exploring the juncture between pragmatics and intertext, adapting and challenging Bloom's anxiety of influence theory, and, ultimately, tracing a shift in the nature of sincerity and authenticity that divided poetic generations.
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- 2020
46. An Autobiographical Perspective on Flannery O'Connor's "The Enduring Chill".
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Barglow, Peter
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GROTESQUE in literature , *DEATH in literature , *SYMBOLISM in literature , *DISABILITIES in literature , *DISTRESS (Psychology) in literature , *NEGATIVITY (Philosophy) - Abstract
The article presents an autobiographical perspective on Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Enduring Chill." It explores grotesque features of the characters in the novel that remind of agonizing life situations including fear of death, negativity and refusal of spiritual help, as well as symbols such as the image of a fierce icy bird to convey threats of physical and spiritual disability. It examines elements of O'Connor's physical distressing life experience that are found in the novel.
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- 2022
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47. SYNTÉZA ESTETIKY A HISTORIOSOFIE V KONTEXTU RUSKÉHO SYMBOLISMU.
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VOREL, JAN
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SYMBOLISM in literature ,CIVILIZATION ,AESTHETICS ,CULTURE - Abstract
The aim of the study is to point out the inner connections between aesthetic-philosophical concepts of the selected Russian symbolists and the historiosophy. In the aesthetic theories of D. S. Merezhkovsky and A. Bely we can find particular ideas that confirm their interest in the meaning of culture and civilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
48. Portrait of Beatrice : Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady
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Fabio Camilletti and Fabio Camilletti
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- Symbolism in literature, Women in literature
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The Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante's and D. G. Rossetti's intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the painter's own interiority in a secularized age. By analyzing Dante's Vita Nova alongside Rossetti's Hand and Soul and St. Agnes of Intercession, which inaugurates the Victorian genre of'imaginary portrait'tales, this book examines how Dante and Rossetti explore the tension between word and image by creating'imaginary portraits.'The imaginary portrait—Dante's sketched angel appearing in the Vita Nova or the paintings evoked in Rossetti's narratives—is not (only) a non-existent artwork: it is an artwork whose existence lies elsewhere, in the words alluding to its inexpressible quality. At the same time, thinking of Beatrice as an'imaginary Lady'enables us to move beyond the debate about her actual existence. Rather, it allows us to focus on her reality as a miracle made into flesh, which language seeks incessantly to grasp. Thus, the intergenerational dialogue between Dante and Rossetti—and between thirteenth and nineteenth centuries, literature and painting, Italy and England—takes place between different media, oscillating between representation and denial, mimesis and difference, concealment and performance. From medieval Florence to Victorian London, Beatrice's'imaginary portrait'touches upon the intertwinement of desire, poetry, and art-making in Western culture.
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- 2019
49. Hermetischer Symbolismus: Andrej Belyjs «Istorija stanovlenija samosoznajuščej duši»
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Angelika Schmitt and Angelika Schmitt
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- Literary criticism, Symbolism in literature
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Die „Istorija stanovlenija samosoznajuščej duši'ist das kulturphilosophische Hauptwerk von Andrej Belyj. Es ist bislang nur in Auszügen publiziert und wird hier erstmals auf der Grundlage des vollständigen Manuskripts erschlossen. Sein Leitbegriff – die Selbstbewusstseinsseele – bildet zugleich seinen Gegenstand und seine Methode. In ihm sind Belyjs späte Erkenntnistheorie und Poetologie zusammengefasst. Diese bestimmen die Gestalt des Textes, dessen Sinnschichten durch eine „autoreferentielle Hermeneutik'erschlossen werden. Neben Anregungen aus der Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners hat Belyj Ideen der russischen Historiosophie aufgegriffen und zu einer originellen Synthese verarbeitet. Mit der Charakterisierung des Spätwerks als „hermetischer Symbolismus'soll ein neues Paradigma geprägt werden.
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- 2019
50. Eis : Kulturwissenschaftliche Erkundungen von der frühen Neuzeit bis heute
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Andreas Homann and Andreas Homann
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- Ice in literature, Icebergs, Symbolism in literature, German literature--Themes, motives, Literature, Modern--History and criticism
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In einer Zeit, in der das Eis an den Polen der Erde nicht nur symbolisch, sondern realiter immer dünner wird, lohnt es umso mehr, einen Blick zurück auf die literatur- und kulturgeschichtliche Karriere des faszinierenden Phänomens ›Eis‹ zu werfen. Weit über die deutschsprachige Literatur hinaus untersucht die Studie das symbolische Potenzial des Faszinationskomplexes ›Eis/Kälte‹ an einer Vielzahl von literarischen, ikonischen und filmischen Texturen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis heute, mit Schwerpunkten auf den synchronen Schnitten ›um 1800‹, ›um 1900‹ und ›um 2000‹. Dadurch wird ein Blick auf diejenigen kulturgeschichtlich einflussreichen Diskurskomplexe und Positionen möglich, die ›Eis‹ als kollektiv verfügbares Symbol zu bündeln und artikulierbar zu machen vermag. Vertiefende exemplarische Einzelanalysen zu Romanen von u. a. Christoph Ransmayr, Sten Nadolny, Martin Mosebach und Peter Høeg machen deutlich, dass und wie mit Hilfe der ›Eis‹-Symbolik höchst komplexe literarische Strukturen generiert werden können.
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- 2019
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