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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"The Magus"”.
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"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage
The enormous amount of research on the subject of early modern magic indicates clearly that magical thought occupied a significant place in contemporary mental patterns. Its existence was widespread enough to cause popular prejudice against its most esoteric forms combined with tacit acceptance of …
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Essays in the History of the Masque: Essence and Echoes
Literary genres are dynamic; they do not remain permanently fixed, but reflect the mutability of society and literary tradition. In this respect, genre development can be viewed as a series of evolutionary stages which culminate, not in a single or simple form but in "modes" which are then mixed …
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‘Past, Present, and Hereafter to be Written’: The Polytemporal Identities of John Dee
This thesis re-assesses what we know of John Dee within a context of what I have termed ‘polytemporality’. This approach questions Dee’s relationship to periodising conventions and to the historiographical recuperation of identity following perceived temporal ruptures (such as the Reformation). It …
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… construct English identity in relation to its others. The traditional function of travel narratives to define Englishness, however, faced a fundamental crisis of meaning when the British Empire starting falling apart after WWII. This crisis emerged as an explicit literary subject in several key …
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Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603
This thesis examines how the occult tradition is an inherent part of the production of vernacular literature during the Elizabethan period. I argue that occult discourses about language are drawn upon by writers of the period who seek to establish an English literature to rival that of the …
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF JOHN FOWLES
… novels. My approach accords with his major theme: that true perception is "seeing whole." My readings involve, first, a close textual analysis which demonstrates how Fowles uses patterning, counterpoint, symbol and image clusters to suggest the nature of reality. I also examine extensively …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
This thesis proposes to re-examine John Fowles's self-reflexive practice and its interactions with existential themes on the basis that critical commentaries have not fully accounted for the rigour of his reflexive approach, nor for the complexity of its interrelations with existential philosophy, …