Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 617 g
Reihe: Aries Book Series
Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 617 g
Reihe: Aries Book Series
ISBN: 978-90-04-36903-0
Verlag: Brill
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Eklektizismus, Esoterik, Anthroposophie, Theosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Through the Portal
Williams and the Occult: Some Discursive Complications
Encountering the Occult in Williams’s Fiction: A Literary/Historical Method
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
Christian Occultism
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
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
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
5 The High-Priestess: Charles Williams and Modern Magic
Magic in the West
The “High-Priestess of Heaven”
Ritual Semiotics and the Magical Imagination
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
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