Aleister Crowley Sylvester Viereck Literature Lust And The Great War
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Aleister Crowley Sylvester Viereck Literature Lust And The Great War
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Author : Patrick J. Quinn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Aleister Crowley Sylvester Viereck Literature Lust And The Great War written by Patrick J. Quinn and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the lives of two writers, one born in Germany (Viereck) and one born in England (Crowley), who were both influenced by decadent French writers such as Baudelaire and Mirbeau and English poets such as Swinburne and Wilde. They both wrote decadent poetry early in their careers before becoming known in literary circles as two of the most wicked writers in America (Viereck) and the world (Crowley). By their twenties, their reputations as rebels against the restrictive and stifled cultures they inhabited were firmly established. Both men enjoyed breaking with the status quo by writing poetry, short stories, and plays with exotic scenes that celebrated the beauty of the female body. Both writers were captivated by the femme fatale and her deleterious effect on her male victims, robbing them of their opportunity for transcendence into a spiritual realm. Their work, especially their love poetry, their science fiction works dealing with vampires, and articles and essays concerning the onset of the Great War are still very readable today. What is also intriguing is that, in 1915, both men were working together in New York, where Viereck was the editor of two pro-German magazines, The Fatherland and The International. Searching for an editorial position at that time, Crowley learned about an opening and was hired by Viereck. There is speculation that Crowley’s “discovery” of the job opening for these pro-German magazines was a clever plan on the part of the British secret service to place one of their agents inside the German spy network in America, of which Viereck was a key player. Propaganda, intrigue, cover-ups, and the American declaration of war on Germany all make this alliance between the two very decadent poets, and perhaps spies or even double agents, worth knowing more about.
Viereck S
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
Viereck S written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Europe categories.
Viereck S The American Weekly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Viereck S The American Weekly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Fatherland
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
The Fatherland written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Europe categories.
Viereck S New World
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Author : George Sylvester Viereck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Viereck S New World written by George Sylvester Viereck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Europe categories.
Magia Sexualis
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Author : Hugh B. Urban
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-10-04
Magia Sexualis written by Hugh B. Urban and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-04 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"This book offers a fascinating account of the development of Western sexual magic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urban focuses on an extraordinary set of historical figures, and his rich analysis illuminates the sexual—and supernatural—undercurrents that have shaped modernity."—Randall Styers, author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
Aleister Crowley And The Temptation Of Politics
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Author : Marco Pasi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-11
Aleister Crowley And The Temptation Of Politics written by Marco Pasi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Philosophy categories.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is one of the most famous and significant authors in the history of western esotericism. Crowley has been long ignored by scholars of religion whilst the stories of magical and sexual practice which circulate about him continue to attract popular interest. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" looks at the man behind the myth - by setting him firmly within the politics of his time - and the development of his ideas through his extensive and extraordinarily varied writings. Crowley was a rationalist, sympathetic to the values of the Enlightenment, but also a romantic and a reactionary. His search for an alternative way to express his religious feelings led him to elaborate his own vision of social and political change. Crowley's complex politics led to his involvement with many key individuals, organisations and groups of his day - the secret service of various countries, the German Nazi party, Russian political activists, journalists and politicians of various persuasions, as well as other writers - both in Europe and America. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" presents a life of ideas, an examination of a man shaped by and shaping the politics of his times.
Hollywood Gothic
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Author : David J. Skal
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2004-10-18
Hollywood Gothic written by David J. Skal and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-18 with Social Science categories.
A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.
Aleister Crowley
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Author : Gary Lachman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Aleister Crowley written by Gary Lachman and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This definitive work on the occult’s “great beast” traces the arc of his controversial life and influence on rock-and-roll giants, from the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath. When Aleister Crowley died in 1947, he was not an obvious contender for the most enduring pop-culture figure of the next century. But twenty years later, Crowley’s name and image were everywhere. The Beatles put him on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Rolling Stones were briefly serious devotees. Today, his visage hangs in goth clubs, occult temples, and college dorm rooms, and his methods of ceremonial magick animate the passions of myriad occultists and spiritual seekers. Aleister Crowley is more than just a biography of this compelling, controversial, and divisive figure—it’s also a portrait of his unparalleled influence on modern pop culture.
Snowdrops From A Curate S Garden
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Author : Aleister Crowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Snowdrops From A Curate S Garden written by Aleister Crowley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Fiction categories.
First published c. 1904 in France, Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden is a hilarious and remarkably inventive collection of erotic prose and verse written by the influential libertine-mystic and magician Aleister Crowley. Sections of prose and verse are unified through a biographical frame narrative attributing them to a single author-poet-perpetrator. The first section, The Nameless Novel, was written primarily to amuse Crowley's convalescing wife, Rose Kelly. A scatological parody of erotic literature, it takes aim at the usual targets of libertine fiction and modern erotica but, at the same time, lampoons their (libertine fiction and erotica's) limitations and conventions through absurdity and hyperbole. The verse sections, which include black parodies of notable Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Algernon Charles Swinburne, were added to extend the literary forms in Crowley's earlier erotic work, White Stains (1898), which is also available from Birchgrove Press.