Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion: In the Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg and in a Selection of Modern Paintings

ISBN-13: 9781845196011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 112 str.

Ruth Dorot

Opis

Drawing parallels between literature and the arts specifically between drama and painting in terms of Time and Symbolism, this book focuses on the connection between the play "The Lady of the Castle" by Leah Goldberg and in a group of selected paintings by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Paul Klee, and Edward Munch. The book explores their common thematic, structural, and stylistic characteristics. In attempting to understand the temporal/symbolic linkages of the text and paintings, much importance is attributed to the relationship between representer and represented and between concrete and abstract. Through symbolic abstraction one is able to better comprehend the human and cosmic phenomena the symbol seeks to decipher. "Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion" deals with a castle: this central symbol of the play and the paintings is multifaceted, representing what is manifest and what is hidden within the castle, revealing a magical encounter between the world of words and the world of color."