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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"magus"”.
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Magic, astrology and music: the background to Marsilio Ficino's astrological music therapy and his role as a Renaissance magus
This thesis is structured in four substantial chapters with subsections. The first two cover the background to Ficino's thought, the second two present his own attitudes towards magic, astrology and music. Chapter one is concerned with aspects of xnusica inundana as represented by Ficino's three …
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"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage
… The early playwrights who dramatized the magus were thus fairly constricted in how the magus could appear without unduly scandalizing the popular audience. Robert Greene, Anthony Munday, and Christopher Marlowe all drew upon characters from popular chapbook romances and dramatized them in …
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The power of the medieval Solomon-magus and Solomon-auctor revealed through the "Canterbury Tales", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and the "Tale of the Sankgreal"
<p>The Solomon-<em>auctor</em> and Solomon-<em> magus</em> traditions begin in the biblical record, and attribute authority to Solomon not only through his ever-familiar wisdom but also his authorship of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs; his administration and craftsmanship in the building …
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Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603
… By removing the occult from the realm of the magus and dramatic sensationalism, this thesis begins with the premise that occult discourses are present within Elizabethan culture and are absorbed into textual practice. It adopts the term occult poetics to describe the processes of writing that …
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Essays in the History of the Masque: Essence and Echoes
… of Alfred -- Echoes of the masque in the The Magus.
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‘Past, Present, and Hereafter to be Written’: The Polytemporal Identities of John Dee
… providing glimpses of the man behind the magus. In this thesis Dee is ‘revisited, repeated […] reinterpreted, and reshuffled’ (Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 75), and emerges as a man before, between, and behind his times: a polytemporal Dee.
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… in several key 1960s novels: John Fowles's The Magus (1965), V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men (1967), and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). In these three novels, Fowles, Naipaul and Rhys critique British imperialism by engaging and reinventing the travel narrative form. Although many British …
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF JOHN FOWLES
… own relationship to being. In the chapter on The Magus I discuss the novel as an epistemology and an exploration of the relationship of generic conventions to quotidian reality. In The Collector chapter I show how Fowles uses the double point of view to reveal the many ways in which freedom may be …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
… first three novels, The Collector (1963), The Magus (Revised Edition, 1977) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), each of which is treated in a separate chapter. My approach in these chapters is to specify clearly the "reflexive position" of the individual novel under discussion and then to …
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"Gods in human form?" : a study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles.
This study evaluates five divine acclamations in the Book of Acts by situating them within the broader ancient Mediterranean context of deification. It demonstrates that divine acclamations in Acts do not conform to a single pattern of deification but several distinct patterns serving different …