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Hidden Mutualities. Faustian Themes from Gnostic Origins to the Postcolonial

By Michael Mitchell

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2006
ISBN
9042021101, 9789042021105
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1943855 bytes)
Series
Cross cultures, 87
Pages
\353
Time added
2022-07-18 14:21:23

Description

Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction PART I: POTENT ARTS 1. The Gnostic/Hermetic Tradition: Simon Magus to Faust 2. Standing and Falling: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus 3. Ariel Magic: Shakespeare's The Tempest PART II: OVERGROWN PATHS 4. Renaissance and Enlightenment: Kepler and Fludd 5. Rationality and Romanticism: Newton and Blake 6. Rediscoveries: Kipling, Yeats, Crowley, Pauli and Jung PART III: RE-VISIONING MUTUALITIES 7. The Fictional Fulcrum: Athol Fugard's Dimetos 8. The Crystal Cliff: David Dabydeen's Disappearance 9. The Magic Wound: Derek Walcott's Omeros 10. Gift of the Magus: The Novels of Wilson Harris Epilogue Bibliography of Works Cited A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y Z

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