The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Title | The Symbolist Movement in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Symons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | French literature |
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The Tuning of the Word
Title | The Tuning of the Word PDF eBook |
Author | David Michael Hertz |
Publisher | SIU Press |
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.
The symbolist movement in the literature of European languages
Title | The symbolist movement in the literature of European languages PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Elizabeth Balakian |
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Pages | |
Release | 1982 |
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Symbolist Art Theories
Title | Symbolist Art Theories PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Dorra |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520077683 |
Presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature
Axel's Castle - A Study in Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Title | Axel's Castle - A Study in Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | Wilson Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2008-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 144372811X |
Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor
A History of Russian Symbolism
Title | A History of Russian Symbolism PDF eBook |
Author | Avril Pyman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
The Symbolist Movement
Title | The Symbolist Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Balakian |
Publisher | New York : Random House |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | French literature |
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