Esotericism and Narrative
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Through the Portal -- Williams and the Occult: Some Discursive Complications -- Encountering the Occult in Williams's Fiction: A Literary/Historical Method -- Chapter 1. Life and Times: Christian Occultism in Modern...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Aries Book Ser
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Roukema, Aren: Esotericism and Narrative: the Occult Fiction of Charles Williams. - Boston : BRILL,c2018. - 9789004369030 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Through the Portal -- Williams and the Occult: Some Discursive Complications -- Encountering the Occult in Williams's Fiction: A Literary/Historical Method -- Chapter 1. Life and Times: Christian Occultism in Modern England -- A Life in Myth -- "But about This Reality of Yours …" -- The "Dead Master" -- Arthur Edward Waite -- Occult Imagination and the Secret Tradition -- Constructing a Cordon Sanitaire -- Part I: Occultism vs. Mysticism -- Part II: Occultism vs. Christianity -- Christian Occultism -- Chapter 2. The Fellowship of the Rosy Cross: A Modern Occult Experience -- Masonic Rosicrucianism -- The Paths of the Tree of Life -- The F.R.C. and the Golden Dawn: The Adeptus Minor Rituals -- Chapter 3. Fiction and Experience -- The Unbearable Lightness of Fiction -- Fantastic Narratology: The Liminality of Esoteric Knowledge -- The Novels--Intrusions of the Supernatural -- The Gothic Occult -- In the Network of Occult Fiction -- The Novels of an Adeptus Exaltatus -- "The End of Desire"--The Discovery of the Higher Self -- Occult Fiction, Occult Life -- Chapter 4. Kabbalah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar -- A.E. Waite and Modern Occult Kabbalah -- Becoming Shekinah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar -- The Greater Trumps -- Kabbalistic Eros and Romantic Theology -- Chapter 5. The High-Priestess: Charles Williams and Modern Magic -- Magic in the West -- The "High-Priestess of Heaven" -- Ritual Semiotics and the Magical Imagination -- Chapter 6. A Magical Life in Fiction -- Active Imagination -- Active Will -- The Way of P'o-lu -- Art Magic: Sex, Poetry, Consciousness -- Reanimation: Enchantment and Empowerment -- Interpretive Drift: The Development of a Modern Christian Magic Chapter 7. The Transmutation of Charles Williams: Spiritual and Literary Alchemy -- From Metallurgy to Particle Physics: A Brief History of Alchemy -- Influences: Lee, Waite, Atwood -- Rosicrucian Alchemy -- The Great Work in Fiction -- A Literary Alchemist -- Epilogue. The Coagulation of Belief -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 9004369112 |