Literary Modernism And The Occult Tradition
Download and Read Literary Modernism And The Occult Tradition full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Literary Modernism And The Occult Tradition ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition
Author | : Leon Surette |
Publisher | : National Poetry Foundation |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Criticism. This collection of essays is posited on the conviction that mythical, ecstatic and revelatory topoi in the modernist works of Yeats, Eliot, Williams, H.D., Pound, Joyce, et al, are motivated not by a sceptical and positivistic dismissal of the religious past -- as implausibly maintained by the New Criticism -- but rather these features arise out of a radical and reformist attempt to revive ancient pagan religious sensibilities. In essence, the modern occult amounts to a neo-pagan piety that is polytheistic, fleshly, erotic and ecstatic -- opposed to a Christian or Jewish piety that's monotheistic, otherworldly, ascetic and revealed. In short, the occult manifests itself in modernist literature in what Nietzsche would have called a Dionysian guise -- confused because of its rejection of Judeo-Christian sensibilities with a sceptical secularism. Among the dozen contributors here are Peter Liebregts, John Coggrave, Barry Ahearn, Leonora Woodman, M. Anthony Trembly and Archie Henderson.
Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition Related Books
Pages: 232
Pages: 185
Pages: 342
Pages: 280
Pages: 291