Author: Richard H Taylor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349173673
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Richard Taylor
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312664565
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1678

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Author: Anna Lorraine Guthrie
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1260

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Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Adrian Frazier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520311116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved the spirited participation of actors, audiences, press, and financiers as well as of the famous poet-playwright who was its co-director. His book unfolds an entertaining and suspenseful tale, centered on the undeniably autocratic personality of W.B. Yeats and with the political struggles of Ireland as a backdrop. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314179
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1024

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Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author: Michael Mitchell
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042021101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the 'scientific' world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the colonial and postcolonial world. This fascinating study brings together researches in widely different fields to show how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the dominant European power structures. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, and combined with occult arts such as alchemy and magic, this living tradition informs the work of 'Magus' figures such as Pico della Mirandola, Marcilio Ficino, Trithemius, Johannes Reuchlin, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Paracelsus and John Dee, who are reflected in the Faust tradition and in Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine potential of the human imagination is traced through the examples of Johan Kepler, Robert Fludd, Isaac Newton, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung. In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes opens new and exciting critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris.

Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880

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