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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Comp. and ed. by E. Takho-Godi
Moscow: Russkii mir, 2014 736p Serie: Bol`shaia moskovskaia biblioteka Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785895771174 Language: Russian
This book by the well known Russian philologist and philosopher analyzes symbols as a whole, the opposition of symbol to allegory, artistic image, metaphor, natural image, and myth. A. Losev gives the theory of social and historical symbolism, illustrated with examples taken from fiction. The edition published in 1976 is supplemented with an extensive up to date bibliography on the subject in several languages, covering the literature of the last 150 years, materials from the Losev`s archive, and other appendices. (0.855 kg.)