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Symbolism

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire admired greatly and translated into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock tropes and images. The aesthetic was developed by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine during the 1860s and '70s. In the 1880s, the aesthetic was articulated by a series of manifestos and attracted a g ...more

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
Man and His Symbols
The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images
Les Fleurs du Mal
Lord of the Flies
The Scarlet Letter
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Animal Farm
Bruges-La-Morte
The Great Gatsby
Petersburg
A Dictionary of Symbols
Laurie Halse Anderson
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letter ...more
Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

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