| European Symbolism: In Search of Myth (1860-1910) Contributor(s): McGuinness, Patrick (Editor), Grigorian, Natasha (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039115316 ISBN-13: 9783039115310 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $106.31 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 709.034 |
| LCCN: 2008041445 |
| Series: Romanticism and After in France |
| Physical Information: 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first comparative study of the Symbolist use of myth in France, Germany, and Russia closely examines a selected range of poetic and pictorial works created between c. 1860 and 1910. The focus of the discussion is on a constellation of five artists, linked by a complex network of influences: Gustave Moreau, Jos -Maria de Heredia, and Jean Mor as (France); Stefan George (Germany); and Valerii Bryusov (Russia). By analysing myth in painting and poetry, the book gives a new insight into the significance of heroic and aesthetic ideals in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European culture. International and interdisciplinary in its comparative approach, the study reassesses the distinction between Symbolism and Decadence by shedding new light on the role of myth within the paradoxical interaction of classical and modernist values in Symbolist art. In the course of the argument, Symbolist mythological art emerges as a significant link between the cultural heritage of classical Greece and the creative agonies of twentieth-century European society. The book will appeal not only to scholars of literature and art, but also to a wider academic public concerned with cross-cultural transaction in Europe. |