Word: symbolisme
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When Vallone dispatches Mercouri to London to persuade Perkins to come to Greece for the summer, the iron gate of tragedy begins creakingly to close. She falls in love with him; later, in Paris, she abandons her Joan Crawfordish role of older-woman-attracted-to-younger-man and seduces him...
But the Duende has stayed away from the Loeb this week. The play is supposed to hang heavy with the ceaselessly repeated and almost unendurable symbolism of sex and death: blood, horses, water, rose, carnation, snow--blood in particular, because blood is the center of the tragedy's force. It...
Before his tragic death on an expedition to Netherlands New Guinea last year, young Michael C. Rockefeller, 23, managed to collect much of what he was searching for in the far Pacific: the religious art of the Asmat, a little-known Papuan people who live on the waterlogged Casuarinen Coast...
When the bark is stripped off, the wood bleeds blood-red sap that enforces the symbolism. The felled trunks, each with a wide buttress root attached, are carried into the village, where the women greet them with rejoicing as if they were enemy corpses. The women, says Dr. Gerbrands, are...
Devilish God. As it becomes clear that Peredonov will never make school inspector, it is also evident that Peredonov's meanness is not merely savage comic realism but cosmic symbolism. Author Sologub. as a leader of the highbrow Symbolist and Decadent literary movements of the 18905. insisted that the...