Symbolism in religion and literature.

May, Rollo,

Symbolism in religion and literature. - New York, G. Braziller, 1960. - 253 p. 22 cm.

Six of the nine "essays ... were originally published in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the issue devoted to 'Symbolism in religion and literature' (vol. 87, no. 3)"

Contents: The significance of symbols / Rollo May --
The nature of the symbol / Erich Kahler --
The religious symbol / Paul Tillich --
The cross:social trauma or redemption / Amos N. Wilder --
On the first three chapters of Genesis / Kenneth Burke --
The pattern of religious organization in the United States / Talcott Parsons --
The broken center: a definition of the crisis of values in modern literature / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. --
The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle" / I.A. Richards --
The representation of nature in contemporary physics / Werner Heisenberg --
Uses of symbolism / A.N. Whitehead.

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Symbolism.
Symbolism in literature.

BL 600 / .M35 1960

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