Symbolism in literature
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower term:Used for:- Signs and symbols in literature
- Symbolism in folk literature
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Ishmael (originally published 1956; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Baird (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)- The Sigla of Finnegans Wake (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976), by Roland McHugh (page images at Wisconsin)
- Mandelstam, Blok, and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Stuart Goldberg (PDF at Ohio State)
- Images of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present, by George P. Landow (illustrated HTML at Victorian Web)
- The Book of Masks (based on the 1921 J. W. Luce edition, with Valloton's illustrations added), by Remy de Gourmont, trans. by Jack Lewis, contrib. by Ludwig Lewisohn, illust. by Félix Vallotton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Le Livre des Masques: Portraits Symbolistes (third edition, in French; 1896), by Remy de Gourmont, illust. by Félix Vallotton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Symbolist Movement in Literature (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., c1919), by Arthur Symons (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Symbolism of the House Door in Classical Poetry (New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1950), by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chicken Little: The Inside Story (A Jungian Romance) (Toronto: Inner City Books, c1993), by Daryl Sharp (PDF at innercitybooks.net)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Allegory- The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Gary Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Body Against Soul: Gender and Sowlehele in Middle English Allegory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Masha Raskolnikov
- Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Richard Neuse (HTML at UC Press)
- Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory (open access reprint; originally published Evanston: Northwestern University Press, ca. 1959), by Edwin Honig (PDF at Northwestern)
- Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance (originally published 1970; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Don Cameron Allen (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Morán González (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and The Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Christopher Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
- Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Frederick Michael Dolan (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The English Moralities From the Point of View of Allegory (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie
- The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature v2; London and Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1897), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text and page images)
- The Universal Mystery-Language and Its Interpretation (revised edition, 1997), by Henry T. Edge (illustrated HTML at TUP)
- The Migration of Symbols (London: A. Constable and Co., 1894), by Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, contrib. by George C. M. Birdwood (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Symbolism of the East and West (London: G. Redway, 1900), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley, contrib. by George C. M. Birdwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928), by Manly P. Hall (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Antithesis Between Symbolism and Revelation: Lecture Delivered Before the Historical Presbyterian Society in Philadelphia, Pa. (1899), by Abraham Kuyper (page images at ptsem.edu)
- The Canon: An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All the Arts (London: Elkin Mathews, 1897), by William Stirling, contrib. by R. B. Cunninghame Graham
- The Initiates of the Flame (second edition, c1922), by Manly P. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabaeus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, Etc. (New York: E. W. Dayton; et al., 1894), by Isaac Myer
- The Symbolisms of Heraldry: or, A Treatise on the Meanings and Derivations of Armorial Bearings (second edition; London: G. Redway, 1898), by William Cecil Wade (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Symbolisms of Heraldry: or, A Treatise on the Meanings and Derivations of Armorial Bearings (London: G. Redway, 1898), by William Cecil Wade
- The Sacred Meadows: A Structural Analysis of Religious Symbolism in an East African Town (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1974), by Abdul Hamid M. el Zein (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Creativity/Anthropology (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), ed. by Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, and Renato Rosaldo (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (London: W. Heinemann, 1896), by E. P. Evans (PDF with commentary at bestiary.ca)
- Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1896), by E. P. Evans (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints as Illustrated in Art (second edition; Boston, Ticknor and Co., c1886), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters, ed. by Katherine E. Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mélanges d'Archéologie Byzantine: Monnaies, Médailles, Méreaux, Jetons, Amulettes, Bulles d'or et de Plomb, Poids de Verre et de Bronze, Ivoires, Objets d'Orfèvrerie, Bagues, Religuaires, etc. (first and apparently only series, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1895), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust)
- Symbolism of Animals and Birds Represented in English Church Architecture (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1913), by Arthur H. Collins
- Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture, and Worship (2000), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops (HTML at usccb.org)
- Angels in Art (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1898), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Altchristliche Bilderfrage nach den Literarischen Quellen (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1917), by Hugo Koch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Gottgeweihten Jungfrauen in den Ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche (in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1892), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art, With That of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and Other Persons of the Old and New Testament (new edition, 2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1892), by Mrs. Jameson and Elizabeth Eastlake
- Mornings in Florence, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
- Mural Paintings in English Churches During the Middle Ages: An Introductory Essay on the Folk Influence in Religious Art (London: J. Lane, c1923), by Frank Kendon
- Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads (10 volumes (1 of text and 9 of plates); Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1923), by Arthur Kingsley Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Saints in Art, With Their Attributes and Symbols Alphabetically Arranged (London: Methuen and Co., c1908), by Margaret E. Tabor
- The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland (3 parts in 2 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Neill and Co., 1903), by J. Romilly Allen, contrib. by Joseph Anderson
- Legends of the Monastic Orders, as Represented in the Fine Arts (new edition; London: Longmans, Green, 1890), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Military Cryptanalysis (4 volumes originally issued 1938-1941; declassified version published 2005), by William F. Friedman (PDF files at nsa.gov)
- The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency/Central Security Service, 1978), by M. E. D'Imperio (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers, and Application to Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (typescript version; c1916), by George Fabyan
- Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers and Application to Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (ca. 50-page printed version; c1916), by George Fabyan
- Lessons in the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon of Verulam, Viscount St Alban (expanded version of his "Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers..."; c1916), by George Fabyan
- Cracking Codes with Python, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
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