The symbolic rose
Material type: TextDallas, TX Spring Pub. c1954Edition: 1st Spring Pub. printing 1989Description: vi, 233p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-88214-341-7
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1st pub by Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1960.
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939 : p88-117.. Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965 : p156-186.. Joyce, James Augustine, 1882-1941 : p187-221.. Middle Ages, 600-1500 : p18-52.. Romanticism : p53-87.
1 Quest for origins. 2 The medieval heritage. 3 The romantic heritage. 4 Yeats and transition. 5 The contemporary school. 6 Eliot and tradition. 7 Joyce and synthesis
'Seward reads Western literary history through what is perhaps its most enduring--and most endearing--symbol. The rose is secular and divine love; Apuleius's ass and the Virgin Mary; beauty, youth, joy and sorrow at the world's transcience...Of value to dreamwork practitioners, literary critics, students of symbolism and the arts, art therapists, and all those cultivating an aesthetic imagination; chapter one includes Freud's, Frazer's, and Jung's interpretations of the significance of the rose...''
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