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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Hermeticism"”.
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The poetics of hermeticism: Andre Breton's shift towards the occult in the War years
… and following his ever deeper research into hermeticism, myth and the occult in his quest for “un mythe nouveau” for the post-war world. Having abandoned political action on leaving the Communist Party in 1935, he nonetheless remained preoccupied with political thought, searching to find a …
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John Dee and the 'Sidney Group' : cosmopolitics and Protestant 'activism' in the 1570s
… reference to such formulae as 'Neoplatonism', 'Hermeticism', and 'Rosicrucianism', but while these are valid and significant in all sorts of ways, there has been no clear apprehension of the main focus of his system. The predominant impression of Dee is of an enormously erudite, but …
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Obscenities offstage: Melbourne’s gay saunas & the limits of representation
… anonymity, darkness, disorientation, excitation, hermeticism, muteness, obscurity, seclusion and synaesthesia, on producing these effects as the commodities on which its commercial viability effectively depends, the gay sauna can be recognised as a zone in which the knowledge sought by the …
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The Organic Imagination and Louis Kahn
… Louis Kahn. Part One builds a chronology from Hermeticism and Jewish mysticisms into German Romanticism and how they played a role in the world of Kahn's parents shortly before his birth. The first chapter looks at mysticism and how it resonates with Kahn's descriptions of silence and light. …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
… I discovered memoria's contribution to alchemy, Hermeticism, the metaphysical conceit, and that uniquely seventeenth-century production--wit. The study also examines the relationships between the Romantics and the seventeenth-century poet, John Donne, proving that Romanticism and the metaphysical …
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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
… of Umberto Eco’s the Name of the Rose. Monastic hermeticism and esoterism also enabled the production of many religious writings that became canonical medieval texts. The religious writings of John Lydgate, whose literary texts focused mainly on the lives of saints and historical figures, …
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Surrealism since the Second World War with particular reference to surrealism in Czechoslovakia
… a range of disciplines from linguistics to Hermeticism. The most important reason for the Czechoslovak surrealists being so little known until now is shown to be due in large measure to their having been forced to work clandestinely under hostile political regimes, first under the Nazis and …
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The influence of the theosophical movement on the revival of astrology in Great Britain and North America in the 20th century
… including Hinduism, Buddhism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and early Christian and Jewish mysticism. This thesis proposes that modern astrology has, to a considerable degree, enriched and renewed itself by drawing upon these traditions through Theosophy, leading to enhanced interest and prestige …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… material world. Machen's outlook is similar to Hermeticism, and like the Hermeticists he enjoyed many of the pleasures available in the world and in the narratives of ecstatic wonder that he found: the power of archetypal myth and local lore; good food and drink; travel between country and city; …
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From Amherst to The Other Side: The Integration of Emily Dickinson into the Italian Consciousness
<p>At the beginning of the twentieth century, Emily Dickinson’s poetry appeared in Italy in two key forms: anthologized alongside other American authors and in select translations by prominent Italian intellectuals including poet Eugenio Montale and writer Emilio Cecchi. Dickinson was both touted …
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Transcendental Exchange: Alchemical Discourse in Romantic Philosophy and Literature
Alchemical imagery and ideology is present in many Romantic works of literature, but it has largely been overlooked by literary historians in their contextualization of the time period. The same can be said for mysticism in general, of which alchemy is a subset. This project accounts for alchemy in …