Symbolists: Avant-Gardists – Books: Illustrations Cover Image

Символисти: авангардисти – книги: илюстрации
Symbolists: Avant-Gardists – Books: Illustrations

Author(s): Violeta Ruseva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Short Story, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: books; illustrations; symbolism; avant-garde

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on emblematic books written in the 1920s, taking as its immediate background the poetics of symbolism and avant-garde aesthetic strategies, along with the controversial, both umbilical and conflicting relationship between verbal account and illustration. In its close inspection of the dynamic historical development of critical reflection, it demonstrates how the book covers and illustrations of the first editions performed the function of a visual metalanguage and a critical reference to the verbal narrative.

  • Issue Year: 40/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 95-114
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English, Bulgarian