Modernism And The Occult
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Modernism And The Occult
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Author : John Bramble
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-03-04
Modernism And The Occult written by John Bramble and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with History categories.
This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.
Literary Modernism And The Occult Tradition
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Author : Leon Surette
language : en
Publisher: National Poetry Foundation
Release Date : 1996
Literary Modernism And The Occult Tradition written by Leon Surette and has been published by National Poetry Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American poetry categories.
Criticism. This collection of essays is posited on the conviction that mythical, ecstatic and revelatory topoi in the modernist works of Yeats, Eliot, Williams, H.D., Pound, Joyce, et al, are motivated not by a sceptical and positivistic dismissal of the religious past -- as implausibly maintained by the New Criticism -- but rather these features arise out of a radical and reformist attempt to revive ancient pagan religious sensibilities. In essence, the modern occult amounts to a neo-pagan piety that is polytheistic, fleshly, erotic and ecstatic -- opposed to a Christian or Jewish piety that's monotheistic, otherworldly, ascetic and revealed. In short, the occult manifests itself in modernist literature in what Nietzsche would have called a Dionysian guise -- confused because of its rejection of Judeo-Christian sensibilities with a sceptical secularism. Among the dozen contributors here are Peter Liebregts, John Coggrave, Barry Ahearn, Leonora Woodman, M. Anthony Trembly and Archie Henderson.
Modernism And The Occult
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Author : John Bramble
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-03-04
Modernism And The Occult written by John Bramble and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with History categories.
This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.
The Occult In Modernist Art Literature And Cinema
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Author : Tessel M. Bauduin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-15
The Occult In Modernist Art Literature And Cinema written by Tessel M. Bauduin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Religion categories.
Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day. This volume explores how Occultism came to shape modernist art, literature, and film. Individual chapters examine the presence and role of Occultism in the work of such modernist luminaries as Rainer Maria Rilke, August Strindberg, W.B. Yeats, Joséphin Péladan and the artist Jan Švankmaier, as well as in avant-garde film, post-war Greek Surrealism, and Scandinavian Retrogardism. Combining the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field of Esotericism Studies with those of Literary Studies, Art History, and Cinema Studies, this volume provides in-depth and nuanced perspectives upon the relationship between Occultism and Modernism in the Western arts from the nineteenth century to the present day.
The Sacred Life Of Modernist Literature
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Author : Allan Kilner-Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-16
The Sacred Life Of Modernist Literature written by Allan Kilner-Johnson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult. Although the early decades of the twentieth century-the era of cocktails, motorcars, bobbed hair, and war-are often described as a period of newness and innovation, many writers of the time found inspiration and visionary brilliance by turning to the mysterious occult past. This book's principle intervention is to reimagine the contours and boundaries of literary modernism by welcoming into the conversation a number of significant female writers and writers in languages other than English who are often still relegated to the fringes of modernist studies. Well-remembered poets and novelists such as Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Aleister Crowley were tied to occult beliefs, and this book sets these leading figures alongside less well-remembered but equally splendid modernists including Paul Brunton, Mary Butts, Alexandra David-Neel, Florence Farr, Dion Fortune, Hermann Hesse, and Rudolf Steiner. From the little magazines where occultism and Fabianism were comfortable companions, to consulting rooms of psychoanalysts where archetypes were revealed to be both mystical and mundane, to the forbidden mountain trails that led to formidable spiritual teachers, the conditions of modernism were invariably those conditions which inspired a return to the occult traditions that many thinkers believed had long evaporated. Indeed, in many ways these traditions were the making of the modern world. By uncovering hidden hopes and anxieties that faced a newly modern Western Europe, this book demonstrates how literary modernists understood occultism as a universal form of cultural expression which has inspired creative exuberance since the dawn of civilisation.
Modernism And Magic
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Author : Leigh Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Modernism And Magic written by Leigh Wilson and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth century
The Birth Of Modernism
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Author : Leon Surette
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1994
The Birth Of Modernism written by Leon Surette and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult.
In The Presence Of Mystery
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Author : Howard M. Fraser
language : en
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Release Date : 1992
In The Presence Of Mystery written by Howard M. Fraser and has been published by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study is devoted to the manifestations of the occult in modernist Hispanic short fiction, particularly that of Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Ruben Dario, and Leopoldo Lugones. According to Howard Fraser, modernist fiction exhibited a coherent, thoroughgoing spiritualist experimentation as an antidote to bourgeois materialism. The fascination that such areas as alchemy, theosophy, and the supernatural held for these modernist writers expressed not only a residual Romantic literary sensibility, but also the influence of numerous spiritualist movements around the world. In this regard, the modernistas show a spiritualist attitude toward the Beyond, what Joseph Campell has called "a dimension of the universe that is not available to the senses ... the recognition of something [in nature] that is much greater than the human dimension."
Modernist Alchemy
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Author : Timothy Materer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Modernist Alchemy written by Timothy Materer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modernist Alchemy takes a close look at the work of twentieth-century poets whose use of the occult constitutes a recovery of discarded beliefs and modes of thought: Yeats and Plath try to dismiss conventional religion, Hughes captures a sense of adventure, H.D. seeks to liberate repressed concepts, while Duncan and Merrill hunt for a lost understanding of sexual identity which will allow for androgyny and homosexuality.
Mechanical Occult
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Author : Alan Ramon Clinton
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Mechanical Occult written by Alan Ramon Clinton and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with American poetry categories.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technology and spirituality formed uncanny alliances in countless manifestations of automatism. From Victorian mediums to the psychiatrists who studied them, from the Fordist assembly line to the Hollywood studios that adopted its practices, from Surrealism on the left to Futurism and Vorticism on the right, the unpredictable paths of automatic practice and ideology present a means by which to explore both the utopian and dystopian possibilities of technological and cultural innovation. Focusing on the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Butler Yeats, Alan Ramon Clinton argues that, given the wide-reaching influence of automatism, as much can be learned from these writers' means of production as from their finished products. At a time when criticism has grown polarized between political and aesthetic approaches to high modernism, this book provocatively develops its own automatic procedures to explore the works of these writers as fields rich in potential choices, some more spectral than others.