The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols

Author: Jean Chevalier
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1190

Book Description
This is a remarkable dictionary, exploring the vast and various symbols which abound in literature, religion, national identity and are found at the very heart of our dreams and sub-conscious. Compiled by an international team of experts, each entry is given its complete range of interpretations - sexual and spiritual, official and subversive, cultural and religious - to bring meaning and insight to the symbol.

Dictionary of Symbolism

Author: Hans Biedermann
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452011183
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols—from amethyst to Zodiac.

The Complete Dictionary of Symbols

Author: Jack Tresidder
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781973928928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
The Complete Dictionary of SymbolsBy Jack Tresidder

Dictionary of Symbols and Imagery

Author: Ad de Vries
Publisher: Amsterdam ; London : North-Holland Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 540

Book Description

A Dictionary of Symbols

Author: J. E. Cirlot
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486132668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532

Book Description
A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 black-and-white illustrations.

Illustrated Dictionary Of Symbols In Eastern And Western Art

Author: James Hall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429979568
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 930

Book Description
"A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East. Flail explores the language of symbols in art showing how paintings, drawings and sculpture express man shades of meaning from simple, everyday hopes and fears to the profoundest philosophical and religious aspirations. The book explains and interprets symbols from many cultures, and over 600 illustrations clarify and complement the text. There are numbered references throughout the text to the sacred Iitcra-1 ture, myths and legends in which the symbols had their origins. Details of English translations of the works are in the bibliography. The book includes an appendix of the transcription of Chinese, notes and references, bibliography, chronological tables and index."

Finite Automata; Behavior and Synthesis

Author: Boris Avraamovich Trakhtenbrot
Publisher: North-Holland
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description

Reverse Symbolism Dictionary

Author:
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786421251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is a companion to the hugely successful Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. The earlier dictionary was arranged by symbol and told what the meanings were. The present work goes the other way (but it is not simply a refiguring of the data). It presents ideas, situations or objects (ancient to modern), and gives the appropriate symbols (allusions, associations, attributes, or emblems). Some examples: one of the symbols for "hell" is descending stairs; an attribute of Saint Benedict is a raven; joy after sorrow is symbolized by the gemstone, amber. Literary, artistic, religious, heraldic, numerological, folkloric, occult, psychological, and biblical usages are included.

The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs

Author: Rosalind Fergusson
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Compiles approximately 6,000 different proverbs organized by thematic headings such as beauty, love, or weather.

The Encyclopedia of Signs and Symbols

Author: John Laing
Publisher: Jensen
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
"From cave paintings in Africa, Asia and Oceania, to the emergence of sophisticated graphic styles in Europe at the turn of the century, these images stimulate curiosity and wonder at the enormous breadth of human creativity."--BOOK JACKET.