John Ruskin: Imagery, Symbolism, Motifs

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Image and Symbol

• Ruskin's Goddess of Getting-on
• Association of Marriage and Mortality
• the Renaissance as Harlot
• Glacial Ice
• Image of the "diminishing glass" in The Stones of Venice
• Ruskin's Theories of the Grotesque
• Ruskin Getting at the Goddess of "Getting-on"
• Visionary Promises
• Ruskin and the trivial
• Biblical Typology
  • Moses striking the rock
  • Pisgah Sight (in Praeterita)
  • Rainbows
  • Towards the Study of Ruskin's Water
• Religious Origins of Ruskin's Symbolical Grotesques
• Rose La Touche as Image of the Heart's Desire — an Axis of Ruskin's Work

Myth and Mythology

• Myth as Allegory
• Myth, Loss, and The Stones of Venice
• The Ethics of the Dust (1866), Ruskin's first complete book on mythology
• The Queen of the Air
• Ruskin and the Fall myth
• Proserpina and Deucalion Greek myths of betrayal and redemption corresponding to Eve and Noah
• Myth and Science

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Last modified 15 July 2008