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Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature
Title: Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and LiteraturePublished by: Cambridge Scholars PublishingRelease Date: February 1, 2020Contributors: Edited by Rosina Neginsky, Marthe Segrestin, Luba JurgensonISBN13: 978-1527543836Buy the Book: Cambridge Scholars PublishingAmazonAmazon.frThis volume examines various manifestations of anguish in art, literature, and philosophy. It demonstrates that the experience of anguish manifested itself in a spectacular way in the arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It makes obvious the extraordinary tension between anguish and art. The works discussed here reflect the magnitude of anguish generated by historical events, scientific advancements (especially in psychology), and metaphysical inquiries of the time. Through the invention of new artistic languages, those…
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Light and Obscurity in Symbolism
Title: Light and Obscurity in Symbolism (Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its)Series: Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its ConsequencesPublished by: Cambridge Scholars PublishingRelease Date: January 1, 2016Contributors: Deborah Cibelli (editor), Rosina Neginsky (editor)ISBN13: 978-1443885126Buy the Book: Cambridge Scholars PublishingAmazonAmazon.frThe idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, since this is a movement of contrasts. It encompasses the major themes of Symbolism, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, the visible and the invisible, and the divine and the earthly. This volume brings together a range of studies in order to understand the notion of…
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Mental Illnesses in Symbolism
Title: Mental Illnesses in SymbolismSeries: Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its ConsequencesPublished by: Cambridge Scholars PublishingRelease Date: June 2017Contributors: Edited by Rosina NeginskyISBN13: 978-1-4438-9126-4Buy the Book: Cambridge Scholars PublishingAmazon.frFor the artists, writers and musicians of the Symbolist Movement of the turn of the century, true art, an extension of one’s “soul” or unconscious, was often regarded as dark, mysterious and unreliable – the world of Dionysus. Such artists, writers and musicians searched for symbols to express or suggest psychological pathologies manifested in exaltation, madness, and other extreme mental states. Mental Illness in Symbolism inquires into the mysteries of the Symbolist psyche through essays on works of…
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Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences
Title: Symbolism, Its Origins and Its ConsequencesPublished by: Cambridge Scholars PublishingRelease Date: January 2011Contributors: Edity by Rosina NeginskyISBN13: 978-1-4438-2392-0Buy the Book: Cambridge Scholars PublishingAmazonAmazon.fr 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:…
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