THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC IMAGERY FROM CLASSICAL LITERATURE TO MODERNIST SYMBOLISM
Keywords:
Artistic imagery, classical literature, symbolism, modernism, representation, literary image, metaphor, aesthetic evolution.Abstract
This article explores the development of artistic imagery from classical literature to modernist symbolism. Artistic imagery has always played a central role in literary expression, serving as a means of representing reality, human character, moral values, emotional experience, and philosophical ideas. In classical literature, imagery was mainly connected with harmony, proportion, imitation of nature, heroic ideals, and moral instruction. However, with the development of literary traditions, artistic imagery gradually moved from direct representation toward more complex, subjective, symbolic, and psychological forms. Modernist symbolism transformed the artistic image into a multilayered sign that expresses inner conflict, alienation, uncertainty, spiritual crisis, and the fragmented nature of modern human consciousness. The article analyzes the historical transformation of imagery and shows how literary images changed from realistic and idealized representation into symbolic and associative structures.
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