( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.

World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.

Trefoil ( from Latin, " three-leaved plant ", French, Italian, German and ) is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings used in architecture and Christian symbolism.

According to Lester Burbank Bridaham, writing in Gargoylaes, Chimeres and the Grotesque in French Gothic Sculpture, " There is much symbolism in the sculpture of Gothic period ; but we must be wary of reading in too much meaning.

Russian symbolism, steeped in the Eastern Orthodoxy and the religious doctrines of Vladimir Solovyov, had little in common with the French style of the same name.

French literary developments of the 19th and 20th centuries have had a particularly strong effect on modern world literature, including: symbolism, naturalism, the " roman-fleuves " of Balzac, Zola and Proust, surrealism, existentialism, and the " Theatre of the Absurd ".

Towards the end of the century, English poets began to take an interest in French symbolism and Victorian poetry entered a decadent fin-de-siecle phase.

Nakahara Chuya and French symbolism.

His early writings were in line with French symbolism and modernism ; however, his later evolution took his works to most radical formal experiments.

The symbolism of French and Oriental poetry influenced his work, which was characterized by delicacy and a contemplative disposition which often referred to rivers, trees, floods, and the changes of the seasons without skirting the social history of his home province.

Artist Leonard French, who designed a stain glass ceiling of the National Gallery of Victoria has drawn heavily on Christian story and symbolism through his career.

René Guénon ( November 15, 1886 – January 7, 1951 ), also known as Shaykh ` Abd al-Wahid Yahya, was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, " sacred science " and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation.

This was seen as a victory with heavy symbolism for the Germans and a stinging insult for the defeated French.

La paz del sendero ( The Peace of the Path ) ( 1903 ), El sendero innumerable ( 1916 ), and El sendero andante ( 1921 ), his major poetic works, show the influence of French symbolism.

Her final book of poems, A London Plane-Tree ( 1889 ), contains lyrics that are among the first to show the influence of French symbolism.

Neither the fruit of brilliant strategic planning, nor the war's largest or bloodiest battle, Bailén nonetheless assumed mythical status in Spain, its symbolism rapidly eclipsing the reality — the negotiated surrender of a rather inexperienced French corps in a peripheral theatre.

He initially aspired to be a writer and wrote many poems and stories in the style of French symbolism, most of which remained unpublished.

It is his best-known work and a landmark in the history of symbolism in French literature.

In medieval France, the language of the birds ( la langue des oiseaux ) was a secret language of the Troubadours, connected with the Tarot, allegedly based on puns and symbolism drawn from homophony, e. g. an inn called au lion d ' or " the Golden Lion " is allegedly " code " for au lit on dort " in the bed one sleeps " ( note that this particular pun cannot be medieval, since final t was pronounced until Middle French, c. f.

Under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert's ambitious policy of ship building, the French navy began to gain a magnificence matching the symbolism of the Louis XIV era, as well as an actual military significance.

Paul Gauguin, a banker, found symbolism in Brittany and then exoticism and primitivism in French Polynesia.

Paul Gauguin, the banker, found symbolism in Brittany and then exoticism and primitivism in French Polynesia.

) Other theories by occultists point out how the mysterious rise to tarot coincides with the spread of the Holy inquisition in the 12th century, and the formation of Kabbalah, theorizing that the esoteric symbolism of the cards are remainders of pagan Europe disguised as playing cards in order to escape persecution.

The Rider-Waite tarot deck has been vastly influential in the development of later divinatory tarot decks to the extent that many are called ' Rider-Waite clones ' because they closely follow the symbolism and imagery of the Rider-Waite deck.

Crowley originally intended the Thoth deck to be a six-month project aimed at updating the traditional pictorial symbolism of the tarot.

Also in 1998 presented his collection of tarot cards, THE BLACK TAROT ( for which he designed new images and a personalized view of the esoteric symbolism of the cards ).

By using costumes, drama and symbolism, tournaments became a form of art, which raised the expenses for these events considerably.

yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period ( from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220 ).

His commissions included The Triumphal Arch, a vast work printed from 192 separate blocks, the symbolism of which is partly informed by Pirckheimer's translation of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica.

Any symbolism has been added later to the three colours, although the orange comes from the House of Orange-Nassau.

Italian Fascism, which derives its name from the fasces, arguably used this symbolism the most in the 20th century.

This symbolism may derive from the account of the heavenly vision recorded in the Christian Bible in Revelation 14: 2 reading: " And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.

Levi created his image of Baphomet, published in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ), by combining symbolism from diverse traditions, including the Diable card of the 16th and 17th century Tarot of Marseille.

The following verse from the Torah underscores that symbolism: " And they embittered ( ve-yimareru וימררו ) their lives with hard labor, with mortar and with bricks and with all manner of labor in the field ; any labor that they made them do was with hard labor " ( Exodus 1: 14 ).

It abandoned former communist symbolism: the red star was removed from the national flag, and the communist coat of arms was replaced by a white double-headed eagle with the arms of both Serbia and Montenegro within it.

" Lecha Dodi ", a 16th century liturgical song with strong Kabbalistic symbolism, contains many passages, including its opening two words, taken directly from Song of Songs.

* The Prisoner Video Companion, 1990: a 48-minute American production with clips, including a few from Danger Man, and voice-over narration discussing origins, interpretations, meaning, symbolism, etc., in a format modelled on the 1988 Warner book, The Official Prisoner Companion by Matthew White and Jaffer Ali.

Medieval poetical literature is full of allusions that can be traced to the Physiologus tradition ; the text also exerted great influence on the symbolism of medieval ecclesiastical art: symbols like those of the phoenix rising from its ashes and the pelican feeding her young with her own blood are still well-known.

The religious symbolism is probably left over from the SCU's association with the Camorra.

The new generation of poets distanced themselves from both the neo-romantics and the modernists: led by S. K. Neumann, their work focused on concrete reality, free of any pathos, or complicated symbolism.

For Debussy, the musician and the man, I have had profound admiration, but by nature I am different from Debussy .” Ravel further stated, “ I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy .”

2 of which was published at his own expense ), Frege attempted to derive, by use of his symbolism, all of the laws of arithmetic from axioms he asserted as logical.

" She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: ( 1 ) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, ( 2 ) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, ( 3 ) to rediscover old texts, ( 4 ) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, ( 5 ) to resist sexism in literature, and ( 6 ) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.

During late 19th century Germany and Vienna, symbolism from ancient Greece was reinterpreted through a new Freudian prism.

His style changed over time from more traditional watercolour landscapes to a unique mixture of pencil and watercolour resulting in dense and busy works full of symbolism.

It was made of sacred woods and leathers from different animals, each of which had important symbolism.

Revolving around celestial symbolism, Constellations earned the artist praise from André Breton, who seventeen years later wrote a series of poems, named after and inspired by Miró's series.

During the last period of her lifetime, her works developed from her usual psychologic style to become more akin to symbolism in its more cryptic form.