Item #66797 The Burning Fountain, A Study in the Language of Symbolism. Symbolism, Philip WHEELRIGHT.

The Burning Fountain, A Study in the Language of Symbolism.

Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1959. Second Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 406pp. Bound in light grey cloth with deep red titling to spine and devices to upper cover, end notes and index. An academic study of the language of symbolism in literature by Philip Ellis Wheelwright (1901 – 1970) an American philosopher, literary critic, and classical scholar. The dust jacket text reads: "Wheelwright's central thesis is that religious, poetic and mythic utterances at their best really mean something, make a kind of objective reference, although neither the objectivity nor the method of referring is of the same kind as in the language of science." Just a bit of light overall shelf wear, light damp mark to lower edges of boards, page edges a bit darkened and dusty, owner's name on front blank and a single pen mark to one page - else a tight, clean VG copy Good dust jacket (Dust jacket well worn and chipped at edges and spine ends, not price-clipped but with publisher's price Xd out. Now in mylar cover.). Item #66797

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