For years, authors have been using the concept of colour in literature as a symbol to help readers get a better understanding of characters and events. Colour symbolism in literature is when a ...

I colour-code the books in our front room. I even colour-code the recipe books in our kitchen. What does this make me? I don’t want to exist in the same country as Truss, let alone in the same boat.

As with the open book symbol, the colour palette can take queues from the content it is representing, such as “from a book cover or illustration”, says Leach. Evoke also compiled a new combination of ...

Why Sheila Heti has kept the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols on her desk for 20 years; This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and ...