Esotericism, art, and imagination /

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Imprint:East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2008.
Description:xvi, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in esotericism series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7249149
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Other authors / contributors:Versluis, Arthur, 1959-
ISBN:9780870138195 (alk. paper)
0870138197 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Esoteric Theaters
  • Theater and Initiation: Euripides' Bacchae
  • Esoteric Cinema
  • Hex and the City: Texts for Occult Performance in Late Capitalism
  • Esoteric Art
  • Philosophic Mercury: Evolution of the Alchemical Feminine
  • Le Jeu de Marseille: The Breton Tarot as Jeu de Hasard
  • The Esoteric Art of Cecil Collins
  • Esoteric Poetry
  • William Blake, George Cumberland, and the Visionary Art of Exotic Erotica
  • Vladimir Solovyov's Poems of Wisdom, Mystery, and Love
  • Mirror, Mask and Anti-self: Forces of Literary Creation in Dion Fortune and W. B. Yeats
  • Esoteric Fiction
  • Esotericism without Religion: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
  • "Knowing In Terms of Togetherness": D. H. Lawrence and Esotericism
  • Faux Catholic: The History of a Gothic Subgenre from Monk Lewis to Dan Brown
  • Esoteric Photography
  • Dark Materials: The Chemical Wedding of Photography and the Esoteric
  • A Mirror with a Memory: Spirit Photography and the Future of Ghosts
  • Esoteric Gardens
  • Enlightenment and Freemasonry in Eighteenth-century Venice: The Hermeticism of Querini's Garden at Altichiero
  • Advent Garden and the Waldorf Imagination: Esotericism, Ritual, and Childhood
  • About the Editors
  • Index