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Table of contents
I. The Delimitation of Symbolism as a Literary Movement15
The Structure of the Symbolist Movement29 Presence and Poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé: Inetrnational reputation and Intellectual Impact43 II. The French Cénacle
The Background of French Symbolism67 The Language of Symbolism85 III. The Emergence of the International Symbolist Movement
1. Catalysts and Intermedairies
The Liberated Verse of the English Translators of French Symbolism127 German Poets in the Proximity of Baudelaire and the Symbolists145 A Graver Decadence: Reactions to Symbolism in Spain157 The Translation and Refraction of Symbolism: A survey of the Hungarian Example165 2. Diffusion and Symbiosis
On the Spread of Symbolism183 Models for Symbolism and Expressionism: Stephan George and Herwarth Waldem191 Symbolism and Modernism213 The Symbolist Mode in the Spanish American Modernista Novel, 1885–1924229 IV. The Consolidation and Metamorphosis of the Symbolist Imprint
Expectation and Resignation: Stefan George’s Place in German and in European Symbolist Literature255 Valéry and his International Reputation269 Yeats: The Question of Symbolism279 Eliot: An English Symbolist295 D’Annunzio and International Symbolism311 Juan Ramón Jiménez and the Heritage of Symbolism in Hispanic Poetry335 Jorge Guillén and the Symbolist Imprint on the Generation of the 1920’s347 The Symbolist Turn in Endre Ady’s Poetry361 Andrey Bely and the Symbolist Movement in Russia381 V. Typological Studies
The “Beyond” and the “Within”: The Plce and Function of Myths in Symbolist Literature399 The Symbol in the Austrian Literature of the Turn of the Century: Problems and Attempted Solutions425 Contribution to a Typology of Symbolist Painting437 Displacements of Parental Space: American Poetry and French Symbolism455 VI. The Symbolist Inmpact on Music and Art
Musical Settings of Symbolist Poems483 Symbolism in Alexander Scriabin’s Music493 The Spread and Evolution of Symbolist Ideals in Art499 The Other Symbolist Inheritance in Painting519 The Esthetics of Symbolism in French and Belgian529 VII. Some National Perspectives
Symbolism in Portuguese Literature549 The Symbolist Movement in Belgium565 Early Scnadinavian Symbolism575 Symbolism and Finnish Literature595 Symbolism in Baltic Literatures603 Czech Symbolist Poetry617 Symbolist Elements in Serbian Poetry627 Symbolism in Bulgarian Literature641 Aspects of Symbolist Poetry in The United States653 VIII. Symbolism in Other Contexts
Symbolic Statement: A Psychological View661 Darió and Rodó: Two Versions of the Symbolist Dream in Spanish American Letters669 Index718