title: A POSTSYMBOLIST’S ODE. THE ‘METAPHORICAL REALISM’ OF KAREL VAN DE WOESTIJNE
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metadata.value: Vandevoorde, Hans
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-12-15T12:35:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-12-15T12:35:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2017.112
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8749
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metadata.value: The Flemish poet Karel van de Woestijne (Ghent 1878–1929) is part of the reaction
  to symbolism in the form of post symbolism. In her book on post-symbolism, The
  Fiction of the Poet, Anna Balakian sees that development especially in the area of the
  symbol: “What strikes me in the progression of the symbolist mode is the passage from
  allegory (unilateral correspondences) to symbol, from metaphoric closing to the openended
  metonymy, and finally to the evocative power discovered in the single word
  serving as a prism for associations and significances.” My contribution, however, shows that allegory and symbol do not exclude each other. Van de Woestijne’s affinity with
  post-symbolism is revealed first of all in a strong accent on ‘life’ in combination with
  a mystical sensitivity and then later in a kind of imagery which is no longer simply
  symbolic or allegorical, but can be defined as open and closed at the same time. I shall
  demonstrate this using the example of one of the odes from his book of poetry Tired
  Heart (1924), which demonstrates Van de Woestijne’s metaphorical realism: the
  realistic description at the beginning of the poem turns to be an extended metaphor
  (allegory) that must be read symbolically. By using abstractions and the further, bold
  (metonymical) elaboration of the central images of house and light, the poem suddenly
  gains radical openness and unexpected modernity.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Flemish literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Karel van de Woestijne
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-symbolism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metaphoric realism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mysticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A POSTSYMBOLIST’S ODE. THE ‘METAPHORICAL REALISM’ OF KAREL VAN DE WOESTIJNE
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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