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European Symbolism

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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, José-Maria de Heredia, and Jean Moréas (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.

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ISBN: 9783039115310
Publication date: 13th July 2009
Author: Natasha Grigorian
Publisher: Peter Lang an imprint of Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 316 pages
Series: Romanticism and After in France
Genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
History of art
Educational: Arts, general