In the broadest sense of the term, allwordsare symbols. (See alsosign.) In a literary sense, says William Harmon, "a symbol combines a literal and sensuous quality with an abstract or suggestive aspect" (A Handbook to Literature, 2006) In language studies,symbolis sometimes used as another...
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an object, person, idea, etc, used in a literary work, film, etc, to stand for or suggest something else with which it is associated either explicitly or in some more subtle way 3. (Mathematics) a letter, figure, or sign used in mathematics, ...
Nearly everyone confuses the term "symbol" with such terms as "allegory," "emblem," "personification," "type," "myth," and the like. Yet all the cultured languages of the world invariably use this term and preserve it in every possible way, despite the dozens of other terms that could ...
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. symbol 1.an object, person, idea, etc., used in a literary work, film, etc., to stand for or suggest something else with which it is associated either explicitly or in som...
4.In literary works, symbol is used to hint abstract meanings by way of symbolic images. 在文学作品中, 象征是以象征意象来暗示表现抽象的意义. 5.Use colors, drawings and symbols copiously. 大量使用颜色, 图形、符号. 6.Adds a packaging symbol to your workflow flowchart. ...
2.(Art Terms) an artist or writer who practises symbolism in his work 3.(Literary & Literary Critical Movements) (usually capital) a writer associated with the symbolist movement 4.(Art Movements) (often capital) an artist associated with the movement of symbolism ...
Terms of symbolism comes from Greece Symbolon, is one of the basic techniques of literary creation, with the help of the external features of a specific thing, place the artist some deep thought, expression or artistic means of reason some kind of very special significance. Symbolism and metaph...
All these terms call our attention to the aspects of a literary work which exactly bridge and bind together old divisive components, ‘ form’ and ‘matter’. These terms look in both directions; that is, they indicate the pull of poetry towards ‘ picture ’ and ‘ world ’ on the one...
Until the 1890’s the manifestations of symbolism in the representational arts had in common only their complete dependence on literature in their elegiac idealization of past epochs. (They relied least on symbolist literature.) Purely literary allegories were cast in traditional 19th-century forms, ...
Laforgue was brought up by relatives atTarbes, Fr., from 1866 to 1876, when he joined his family in Paris. After finishing his schooling at the Lycée Fontanes, he attended the lectures of the literary critic and historianHippolyte Taineat theÉcole des Beaux-Arts. Through the writerPaul ...