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  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Movement in Literature Arthur Symons, 1899 Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. Words themselves are symbols. Symbolism began with the first words uttered by the first man as he named every living thing. In a symbol there is concealment, yet revelation. All of these have greatly contributed to our understanding of symbolism. Contents: Gerard de Nerval; Villiers de L'isle Adam; Arthur Rimbaud; Paul Verlaine; Jules Laforgue; Stephane Mallarme; The Later Huysmans; Maeterlinck as a Mystic. Essays by: Balzac; Prosper Merimee; Theophile Gautier; Gustave Flaubert; Charles Baudelaire; Edmond and Jules de Goncourt; Leon Cladel; A Note on Zola's Method.
  french symbolist movement: The Crisis of French Symbolism Laurence Porter, 2019-05-15 Challenging traditional histories of the nineteenth-century French lyric, Laurence Porter maintains that from 1851 to 1875 Symbolism constituted neither a movement nor a system, but rather represented a crisis of confidence in the powers of poetry as a communicative act. The Crisis of French Symbolism offers a provocative reinterpretation of the four acknowledged masters of Symbolist poetry: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé.
  french symbolist movement: Passionate Discontent Patricia Mathews, 1999 Art historian Patricia Mathews examines the artistic, social, and scientific discourses of fin-de-siecle France. Along the way, she illuminates the Symbolist construction of a feminized aesthetic that nonetheless excluded female artists from its realm. She analyzes contemporary cultural assumptions as well as theories such as social Darwinism, biological determinism, and degeneracy.--BOOK JACKET.
  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages Anna Balakian, Anna Elizabeth Balakian, 1984 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.
  french symbolist movement: French Symbolist Poetry, 50th Anniversary Edition, Bilingual Edition , 2007-12-17 Whether viewed as an influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolists are a tantalizing group. Paralleling similar movements in art and music, their intensely personal poetry leans more heavily on oblique suggestions and evocation than on overt statement. It sets its perceptions, intuitive and nonrational, squarely against intellectual and scientific thinking—and this with a music that is flexible, intrepid, and subtle, sometimes even dissonant and jazzy. But the poetry itself is the movement's best definition. Here with bilingual text en face, an introduction, and illuminating notes, are some forty carefully selected poems of that movement. They range from the remote beginnings in Nerval and Baudelaire, through the humor and irony of Corbière and Laforgue, to the technical brilliance of Valéry, who died as recently as 1945. For those who wish an overall view of the movement, this is a generous sampling.
  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Movement in Literature Arthur Symons, 2020-08-14 Reproduction of the original: The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons
  french symbolist movement: The Influence of French Symbolism on Modern American Poetry René Taupin, 1985
  french symbolist movement: What is Symbolism? Henri Peyre, 2010-03-14 This book centers on the revolutionary French symbolist movement of the last part of the 19th century, translated by Emmett Parker. Peyre gets to the heart of the subject, through provocative lines.
  french symbolist movement: Four French Symbolists Russell T. Clement, 1996
  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Movement in Literature Arthur Symons, 1911
  french symbolist movement: Poem and Symbol Wallace Fowlie, 2010-11-01
  french symbolist movement: The Painter of Modern Life Charles Pierre Baudelaire, 2021-09-10 Poet, esthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most revolutionary art critics of his time. Here he delves into beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art, and the role of the artist, and he describes the painter who, in his opinion, more fully expresses the drama of modern life.
  french symbolist movement: Symbolism Charles Chadwick, 2017-07-06 First published in 1971, this work provides a helpful introduction to the French Symbolism movement. After an introduction to the defining ideas of the movement, it explores five key Symbolist writers: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé and Valéry. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of Symbolism across Europe. This book will be of interest to those studying nineteenth-century French literature.
  french symbolist movement: The Language of French Symbolism James R. Lawler, 2015-12-08 The traits that characterize the language of French Symbolism are the center of these essays. In interpreting major or previously neglected compositions by Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Claudel, Valéry, and Apollinaire, the author shows how each of these poets worked with the elements that distinguish this influential group of writers as a whole. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Movement Anna Balakian, 1967
  french symbolist movement: Symbolism Charles Chadwick, 2017-07-06 Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- 1 The Theory of Symbolism -- 2 Baudelaire's 'Correspondances' -- 3 Verlaine's Melodies -- 4 Rimbaud the 'Voyant' -- 5 Mallarme and the Infinite -- 6 Valery's Return to Reality -- 7 The Repercussions of Symbolism -- Select Bibliography -- Index
  french symbolist movement: The Critic's Alchemy Ruth Zabriskie Temple, 1953
  french symbolist movement: The Book of Masks Remy de Gourmont, 2021-05-19 In The Book of Masks, Remy de Gourmont artfully explores the intricate interplay between identity and appearance through a series of evocative essays and philosophical musings. Written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period marked by rapid societal change and the questioning of traditional values, the book showcases Gourmont's lush prose style, characterized by vivid imagery and psychological depth. Each essay invites readers to peel away layers of societal facades, revealing the often hidden complexities of human nature and self-presentation, resonating profoundly with the Symbolist movement's preoccupations with aesthetics and inner truth. Remy de Gourmont, a prominent literary figure and a leading voice in avant-garde thought, delved into diverse disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, and art, establishing himself as a critic of the era'Äôs conventional mores. His experiences with the bohemian culture in Paris and his profound understanding of contemporary literature inclined him toward themes of duality and mask-wearing in social contexts. This intellectual backdrop informed his creation of The Book of Masks, which serves not merely as a collection of essays but as an incisive critique of identity politics through the ages. For readers interested in the philosophical underpinnings of identity, The Book of Masks offers a captivating blend of scholarly insight and lyrical beauty. Gourmont'Äôs work encourages contemplation of the masks we wear in society, inviting us to reflect on our authenticity in an increasingly complex world. Engaging and thought-provoking, this seminal text is a must-read for those intrigued by the nuances of human persona and the art of self-representation.
  french symbolist movement: A Victorian Flower Dictionary Mandy Kirkby, 2011-09-20 “A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.” Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings—love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now, modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom, and this book will share the historical, literary, and cultural significance of flowers with a whole new generation. With lavish illustrations, a dual dictionary of flora and meanings, and suggestions for creating expressive arrangements, this keepsake is the perfect compendium for everyone who has ever given or received a bouquet.
  french symbolist movement: A Forest of Symbols Andrei Pop, 2019-10-18 In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to the viewer by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but a revolution in sense and in how we conceptualize the world. At the same time, the concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, especially by mathematicians and logicians who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, and which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. A crisis of sense made art and science look for conceptual foundations underlying the diverging subjective responses and perceptions of individuals. Unlike other studies of this period, Pop’s focus is not on how individual artists may have absorbed bits of scientific theories, but rather on the philosophical questions that were relevant to both domains. The problem of subjectivity in particular, of what in one’s experience can and cannot be shared, was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop’s brilliant close readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and Mallarmé, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell add up to a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.
  french symbolist movement: Axel's Castle Edmund Wilson, 2007-03 Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s 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 artwork.
  french symbolist movement: Symbolist Art in Context Michelle Facos, 2009-03-31 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.
  french symbolist movement: French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music Joseph Acquisto, 2017-03-02 What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Ghil, and Royère question the nature and function of the lyric through an ever-shifting set of intertextual and cultural contexts. Rather than focusing on 'musicality' in verse, the author addresses the consequences of choosing music as a site of dialogue with poetry. Acquisto argues that memory plays an under acknowledged yet vital role in these poets' rewriting of symbolist poetics. His reading of their interactions, and his focus on both major and neglected poets, exposes the myth of a small handful of 'great authors' shaping symbolism while a host of disciples propagated the tradition. Rather, Acquisto proposes, the multiplicity of authors writing and rewriting symbolism invites a dialogic approach to the poetics of the period. Moreover, music, as theorized rather than performed or heard, serves as a privileged mobile space of poetic creation and dialogue for these poet-critics; it is through engagement with music, supposedly the purest or most abstract of the arts, that one can retrace the textual and cultural transformations accomplished by the symbolist tradition. By extension, these poets' rethinking of poetics is an occasion for present-day critics to re-examine assumptions, not only about the intersections of music and poetry and our understanding of symbolist poetics but also about the role that the aesthetic implicitly plays in the creation, preservation, or reshaping of cultural memory.
  french symbolist movement: French Symbolist Poetry John Porter Houston, Mona Tobin Houston, 1980
  french symbolist movement: Poe Abroad Lois Davis Vines, 2002-04-25 Perhaps no one would be more shocked at the steady rise of his literary reputation—on a truly global scale—Than Edgar Allan Poe himself. Poe's literary reputation has climbed steadily since his death in 1849. In Poe Abroad, Lois Vines has brought together a collection of essays that document the American writer's influence on the diverse literatures—and writers—of the world. Over twenty scholars demonstrate how and why Poe has significantly influenced many of the major literary figures of the last 150 years. Part One includes studies of Poe's popularity among general readers, his influence on literary movements, and his reputation as a poet, fiction writer, and literary critic. Part Two presents analyses of the role Poe played in the literary development of specific writers representing many different cultures. Poe Abroad commemorates the 150th anniversary of Poe's death and celebrates his worldwide impact, beginning with the first literal translation of Poe into a foreign language, “The Gold-Bug”into French in 1845. Charles Baudelaire translated another Poe tale in 1848 and four years later wrote an essay that would make Poe a well-known author in Europe even before he achieved recognition in America. Poe died knowing only that some of his stories had been translated into French. He probably never would have imagined that his work would be admired and imitated as far away as Japan, China, and India or would have a lasting influence on writers such as Baudelaire, August Strindberg, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Tanizaki Junichiro. As we approach the sesquicentennial of his death, Poe Abroad brings together a timely one-volume assessment of Poe's influence throughout the world.
  french symbolist movement: Nakahara Chūya and French Symbolism Noriko Thunman, 1983
  french symbolist movement: The Book of Monelle Marcel Schwob, 1929
  french symbolist movement: French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music Joseph Acquisto, 2006 What were the roles of music and memory in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? Why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study of the ways in which major figures Baudelaire and Mallarmé and neglected poets Ghil and Royère question the nature and function of the lyric.
  french symbolist movement: The Tuning of the Word David Michael Hertz, 1987 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.
  french symbolist movement: Symbolism Rodolphe Rapetti, 2005 Offers a new analysis of European symbolist art, situating the movement in its historical context and retracing its links with the evolution of ideas, particularly in literature.
  french symbolist movement: Hofmannsthal and the French Symbolist Tradition Steven P. Sondrup, 1976 The aim of this study is a thorough investigation and comparison of Hofmannsthal's relationship to the theory of the French symbolists. A notable similarity of structure, mood and technique between Hofmannsthal's poetry and his lyric dramas and those of the symbolists, has long interested scholars and critics. In his concluding remarks, the editor brings forward the problems of researches.
  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature Lothar Hönnighausen, 1988-08-26 Lother Hönnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  french symbolist movement: The Influence of French Symbolism on Modern American Poetry René Taupin, 1985
  french symbolist movement: Divagations StŽphane MallarmŽ, 2009-06-15 This is a book just the way I don't like them, the father of French Symbolism, StŽphane MallarmŽ, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: scattered and with no architecture. On the heels of this caveat, MallarmŽ's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. The salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. If MallarmŽ captured the tone and very feel of fin-de-sicle Paris, he went on to captivate the minds of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--from ValŽry and Eliot to Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This was the only book of prose he published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Barbara Johnson, is now available for the first time in English as MallarmŽ arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a notoriously difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. Whether contemplating the poetry of Tennyson, the possibilities of language, a masturbating priest, or the transporting power of dance, MallarmŽ remains a fascinating companion--charming, opinionated, and pedantic by turns. As an expression of the Symbolist movement and as a contribution to literary studies, Divagations is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.
  french symbolist movement: An Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Valéry in English Translation Angel Flores, 1958
  french symbolist movement: The Complete Poems Hart Crane, 1958
  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Movement Anna Balakian, 1967
  french symbolist movement: The Symbolist Poem Edward Engelberg, 1967
  french symbolist movement: A Study Guide for "Symbolism" Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016 A Study Guide for Symbolism, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
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