"11" Result
Sort By:
The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its …
This work looks at the complexity of the symbolist movement, its origins and its influence on the art and literature of the 20th century.