The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Title | The Symbolist Movement in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Symons |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 150 |
Release | 2020-08-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752431997 |
Reproduction of the original: The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons
The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages
Title | The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Balakian |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 735 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9630538954 |
Edited by Anna Balakian, this volume marks the first attempt to discuss Symbolism in a full range of the literatures written in the European languages. The scope of these analyses, which explore Latin America, Scandinavia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as well as West European literatures, continues to make the volume a valuable reference today. As René Wellek suggests in his historiographic contribution, the fifty-one contributors not only make us think afresh about individual authors who are giants, but also draw us to reassess schools and movements in their local as well as international contexts. Reviewers comment that this copious and intelligently structured anthology, divided into eight parts, traces the conceptual bases and emergence of an international Symbolist movement, showing the spread of Symbolism to other national literatures from French sources, as well as the symbiotic transformations of Symbolism through appropriation and amalgamation with local literary trends. Several chapters deal with the relationships between literature and the other arts, pointing to Symbolism at work in painting, music, and theatre. Other chapters on the psychological aspects of the Symbolist method connect in interesting ways to a vision of metaphor and myth as virtually musical notation and an experimental emphasis on the play afforded by gaps between words. The volume is a major contribution to the most significant exponents and essential themes of Symbolism. The theoretical, historical, and typological sections of the volume help explain why the impact of this important movement of the fin-de-siècle is still felt today.
Symbolist Art Theories
Title | Symbolist Art Theories PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Dorra |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520077683 |
Presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature
The Tuning of the Word
Title | The Tuning of the Word PDF eBook |
Author | David Michael Hertz |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780809313129 |
David Michael Hertz explicates the relationship between the music and poetry of the Symbolist movement, tracing it from its inception in Baudelaire’s verse and Wagner’s music to its final transformation into Modernism in the works of Schoenberg. Hertz begins by examining the concept of the period, the well-rounded phrase of verse or music, which was attacked first in Wagner’s use of the leitmotif and unusual intervals such as the tritone. Such musical elements created a feeling of emotion directly expressed, unhampered by convention. This approach was further developed by Mallarmé, who stripped his verse of its conventional framework in an attempt to create images of pure emotion. Mallarmé in turn influenced Debussy. Hertz shows that in setting Mallarmés verse, Debussy moved further away from the standard harmonic structures of the nineteenth century, particularly in his use of tonal ambiguity. Hertz explores the aesthetic of the Symbolist movement as embodied in the unique forms that characterized the era, the tone poem and the lyric play. He dem- onstrates the particular importance of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mé1isande, which was scored by Debussy. A revolutionary work difficult to characterize, it speaks gracefully of the transformation of Romanticism into Modernism. Citing examples of art, literature, and music, Hertz finds ultimately that the Symbolist aesthetic came to encompass the entire artistic world. Only a scholar thoroughly at home in both the literary and musical realms and possessing a sovereign command of the cultural climate and currents of the period would be able to deliver exactly what his subtitle promises: a musico- literary poetics of the Symbolist movement.
Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences
Title | Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences PDF eBook |
Author | Rosina Neginsky |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 665 |
Release | 2010-08-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443824526 |
The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its essence in an article that appeared on April 24, 1887, in L’Art moderne. He wrote that the notion of a symbol in the Symbolist movement is the opposite of the notion of the symbol in classical usage: instead of going from the abstract to the concrete (Venus, incarnated in the statue, represents love), it goes from the concrete to the abstract, from “what is seen, heard, felt, tasted, and sensed to the evocation of the idea.” This volume attempts to give a glimpse into the power of the Symbolist movement and the nature of its fundamental and interdisciplinary role in the evolution of art and literature of the twentieth century. It records the studies of a group of scholars, who met and discussed these topics together for the first time in 2009. While illuminating the specificity of Symbolism in art, architecture and literature in different European countries, these articles also demonstrate the crucial role of French Symbolism in the development of the international Symbolist movement. The authors hope that an expanding group, a society of Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), born out of the first meeting, will continue to further this discussion at future conferences and in the printed conference proceedings.
A History of Russian Symbolism
Title | A History of Russian Symbolism PDF eBook |
Author | Avril Pyman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 504 |
Release | 2006-03-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521024303 |
This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, from its initial hostile reception as a symptom of European decadence to its absorption into the mainstream of Russian literature, and eventual disintegration. It focuses on the two generations of writers whose work served as the seedbed of Existentialism in thought and of Modernism in prose and the performing arts, and reassesses their achievements in the light of modern research. At the centre of the study are the texts themselves, with prose quoted in English translation and poetry given in the original Russian with prose translations. There is a valuable bibliography of primary sources and an extensive chronological appendix. This book will fill a long-felt gap, and will be invaluable to students and teachers of Russian and comparative literature, Symbolism, modernism, and pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
Symbolist Art in Context
Title | Symbolist Art in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Facos |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520255828 |
The Symbolist art movement of the late 19th century forms an important bridge between Impressionism and Modernism. But because Symbolism emphasizes ideas over objects and events, it has suffered from conflicting definitions. In this book, Michelle Facos offers a comprehensive description of this challenging subject.