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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"the occult"”.
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The Occult tradition in English Renaissance drama
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Magic and possibility: medievalism and the idea of the occult
This thesis concerns the means by which the notion of medieval or premodem magic (and the occult or hidden) is articulated and theorized within the humanities. While anthropology has frequently contended with the issue of magic's problematic agency within scholarly discourse, the historiography of …
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The occult in Rabelais: three supplementary aspects of the Rabelaisian allegory
The Occult in Rabelais concerns itself with all references, explicit or implied, to the systems of contemporary occultism in Rabelais’s work. Although a division may be made between those allusions which seem merely to reflect humanist preoccupation with the occult and those which are functional in …
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Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England
This thesis attempts to figure witchcraft practices within a larger economic context whereby cursing and maleficent acts in general might be read as a means of political protest against the political and economic destabilization of comrights. By reading cursing and prophecy as epistemological …
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The poetics of hermeticism: Andre Breton's shift towards the occult in the War years
André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement, which he had founded with others in 1924 in the wake of the First World War, left Nazi-occupied France in 1941. Sailing from Marseilles, with an enforced three week stop in Martinique while waiting for onward passage, he chose to carry the spirit of …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
This thesis examines the influence of beliefs about King Solomon on the depiction of magic in early modern drama. I explore the extent to which would-be magicians could use Solomon as a role model for their own endeavours, drawing upon sources which attributed magical powers to the biblical king. …
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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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Occult-Related Crime and the Policing thereof, through the lens of Cosmology of Socio-Political Factors
Occult-related crimes are crimes of a spiritual nature, in Africa, the study of these crimes could be approached from the field of African cosmology, which encompasses spirituality, culture, and nature. But these crimes also exist in a sociopolitical context, as well as an economic one. It is said …
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Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature
The general consensus regarding the role of Christianity at the fin de siècle is that while it did not cease to exist, technological and scientific advances had eroded the faith of many educated Victorians. Here, the term “seeking” suggests a spiritual journey with the aim of attaining a true …
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Kant's Epistemological geography : the role of Schwärmerei and demarcation in the conception of critical philosophy
… years. It explores Kant's reactions to so-called occult phenomena and related teachings. Kant's initial and the single most important interlocutor in this respect was Emanuel Swedenborg. Kant refers to his visions and the tone of his writings as Schwärmerei, that is an exaltation or an exalted …
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"Rosa alchemica," "The tables of the law," and "Adoration of the magi," edited and with an introduction
… an introduction to William Butler Yeats' early occult short stories "Rosa Alchemica," "The Tables of the Law," and "The Adoration of the Magi." Panned by critics over the last century, the three stories contained in this volume are both controversial and difficult. The introduction explains the …
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Spectral Evidence
… novel, <em>Spectral Evidence</em>, weaves together my interests in the history of witchcraft and reproductive rights, colonial New England and the modern media landscape, and the female lived experience past and present. The novel begins when a fledgling female journalist is assigned to travel …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
During the height of the Victorian Period and the development of the sensation novel, the public eagerly consumed the writings of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the author was a household name. In the current age, however, scholarly criticism often focuses on “Carmilla” (1872) and other texts in …
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Translating Magic: Remedios Varo’s Visual Language
… included alchemy, Russian mysticism, Tarot, and the occult. While her paintings frequently depict a scientist, explorer, or some magical figure in a meticulously rendered setting there is a deeper understanding to be gained though examining what Varo studied and how she used specific iconography …
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Occult Communism: culture, science and spirituality in late socialist Bulgaria
"“Occult Communism” explores the unlikely infusion of state-sponsored spiritualism into the materialist ideology of Bulgarian late communism. In the 1970s, Minister of Culture Lyudmila Zhivkova initiated grandiose state programs to inject the “occult” into Bulgaria’s national culture, art, science …
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Enchantment, treasures and the otherworld in the Four Branches of the mabinogi.
This thesis examines the distribution and types of enchantments found in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The synchronic use of enchantment within the landscape, animal transformation and the use of natural magic is analysed – in particular, the role of natural magic to aid conjuring in Math. …
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Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington
This practice-led PhD explores the role of mimicry (simulation, impersonation, imitation) in the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. It evaluates mimicry both as a feminist critical technique and as a form of camouflage or evasion which provides space and …
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Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism
This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield …
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The Alchemist of the Surreal and the Uncanny Valley: Jan Švankmajer, the puppet and eerie animation
… Švankmajer, a militant Surrealist and member of the Czech Surrealist group, whose work is influenced by the Czechoslovakian culture and tradition, employs the notion of the uncanny in his films in mixing and contrasting ways and animating the inanimate is a central element. Freud’s The Uncanny, …
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Prophets of the beast: the modernist esotericism of D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats
This thesis analyses the influence of the esoteric tradition on D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats’ thought and examines both authors’ writings in light of the antidemocratic political religions that emerged during and after their respective careers. While a number of extant studies investigate the …
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