Word: symbolisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Muir's analysis of the idiot's mind is more intense than the acuteness of a clinical report, for he sharply transmits to the reader the emotional reaction to large events, strained through a limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills...
*A drama of religious symbolism by Charles Rann Kennedy, in which a servant does and says the things which, in the author's opinion, Jesus Christ would say and do were he in the same situation. John Galsworthy wrote a similar play, Windows, without the Christian emphasis.
Nor does the poet confine his line sketches to the medium of words: paradoxically enough, he uses the medium of letters. All through the book are little pen drawings built up of alphabetic script distorted to form pictures. Here too, humor pops up without warning, notably in the sketch of...
THE characters of this novel are articulate; they speak in conventional phrase, but the authoress has exhibited considerable dexterity in uncovering, sometimes gently, often ironically, what they really mean and what emotions within are contending with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph...
As ever Wassermann is concerned with the problems of good an evil. With a slight tendency to run off into mystic symbolism, his books are all highly and openly philosophic; only his Viennese delicacy and finesse have saved him from the bogs and fogs which beset most German writers. He...