The Occult in Dramatic Function
Author | : Garry Engkent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Occultism in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Garry Engkent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Occultism in literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Lima |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813123622 |
“The evil that men do” has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. In Stages of Evil, Robert Lima explores the sociohistorical implications of Christian and pagan representations of evil and the theatrical creativity that occultism has engendered. By examining examples of alchemy, astronomy, demonology, exorcism, fairies, vampires, witchcraft, hauntings, and voodoo in prominent plays, Stages of Evil explores American and European perceptions of occultism from medieval times to the modern age.
Author | : Dietmar Tatzl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Augusta Espantoso Foley |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Occultism in literature |
ISBN | : 9782600030380 |
Author | : Joshua Gunn |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2011-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817356568 |
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse. The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as a rhetorical phenomenon tied to language and symbols and more central to American culture than is commonly assumed. Joshua Gunn approaches the occult as an idiom, examining the ways in which acts of textual criticism and interpretation are occultic in nature, as evident in practices as diverse as academic scholarship, Freemasonry, and television production. Gunn probes, for instance, the ways in which jargon employed by various social and professional groups creates barriers and fosters secrecy. From the theory wars of cultural studies to the Satanic Panic that swept the national mass media in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gunn shows how the paradox of a hidden, buried, or secret meaning that cannot be expressed in language appears time and time again in Western culture. These recurrent patterns, Gunn argues, arise from a generalized, popular anxiety about language and its limitations. Ultimately, Modern Occult Rhetoric demonstrates the indissoluble relationship between language, secrecy, and publicity, and the centrality of suspicion in our daily lives.
Author | : L. W. Rogers |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2018-12-29 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781792884900 |
It is fairly well established that witchcraft and similar topics play a substantial role in theater. Indeed, the very act of illusion present there is occult in form; but Shakespeare, at least in the pre-modern period, plays, as it were, a more substantial part in this than most contemporary producers of on-stage entertainment.Looking specifically at "The Tempest," "Macbeth," and "Julius Caesar," and to a lesser extent several other works, this booklet, from a theosophical background, seeks to enumerate some of the more substantial occultism present therein.
Author | : Margaret Oxenham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Occultism |
ISBN | : 9780951846612 |
Author | : Tessel M. Bauduin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3319764993 |
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.
Author | : Nandini Das |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317290674 |
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
Author | : Myrtle Seldon Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |