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I shall illustrate this assumption on the basis of two examples: the first, the female characters in Beckett's dramaticule Come and Go (1967), echo Shakespeare's Weird Sisters in Macbeth but bewitch the reader into turning around in an intertextual circle and surfing from one literary creation...
This essay considers the influence of the range of beliefs and practices commonly referred to as Western esotericism on a selection of American Romantic writers. The nature of this influence varies between the authors considered, ranging from selective appropriation to polemic rejection. The examples ch...
Below follow some rough examples, and preliminary results which already seem to challenge established knowledge in the history of esotericism. (more…) Published in: Esotericism Religion Theory & Method on January 26, 2011 at 2:05 pm Comments (11) Tags: Christoph Meiners, culturomics, ...
Webern’s music that delivers esoteric ideas, and Cupchik’s review on Chöd as performing art. In these examples, the artist is linking his intuition with a religious idea (faith, understanding, or practice) through the form of art. This is highly similar to Sullivan’s thesis on how mu...
the contents and concepts in The King In Yellow have been utilized in contemporary esoteric, occult, and magical practice, whether by individual practitioners employing a weird aesthetic or within the shared textual and ritual lexica of organized groups. While all of these examples exhibit, at ...