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The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Chevalier, Jean (Author), Gheerbrant, Alain (Author), Buchanan-Brown, John (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0140512543     ISBN-13: 9780140512540
Publisher: Penguin Books
OUR PRICE: $24.70  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 1997
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Annotation: A bestseller in France, where it was originally published, this supremely erudite book draws together folkloric, literary, and artistic sources and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every color, number, sound, gesture, expression, or character trait that has benefited from symbolic interpretation. Illustrations.

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BISAC Categories:
- Reference | Dictionaries
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
Dewey: 302.222
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: Dictionary, Penguin
Physical Information: 2.2" H x 5.2" W x 7.7" L (1.75 lbs) 1184 pages
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds--including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.
 
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