Spring
2004
Til Mid-Summer
Volume 3 •
Issue 3 Write Between the
Lines is an exploration
and articulation of the obvious and the obscure. A cavalcade of
creation and commentary designed to amuse and bemuse.
At
the center of aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth
century is the semi-mystical doctrine of the symbol. For Romanticism,
indeed, the symbol becomes the panacea for all problems. Within
it, a whole set of conflicts which were thought to be insoluble
in ordinary life between subject and object, the universal
and the particular, the sensuous and the conceptual, material
and spiritual, order and spontaneity could be magically
resolved. Eagleton, Literary Theory