Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture ─ Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches
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ISBN13:9781138824188
出版社:Taylor & Francis
作者:Miriam Wallraven
出版日:2015/07/09
裝訂/頁數:精裝/248頁
規格:22.9cm*15.9cm*1.9cm (高/寬/厚)
商品簡介
Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such asThe Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analyzed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess Spirituality. Wallraven engages with the question of how literature functions as the medium for creating occult worlds and powerful identities, particularly the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and goddess. Based on the concept of ancient wisdom, the occult in literature also incorporates topical discourses of the twentieth century, including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology. Hence, as an ever-evolving discursive universe, it presents alternatives to religious truth claims that often lead to various forms of fundamentalism that we encounter today. This book offers a ground-breaking approach to interpreting the forms and functions of occult texts for scholars and students of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.
作者簡介
Miriam Wallraven is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tubingen, Germany. She is the author ofA Writing Halfway between Theory and Fiction: Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century(2007) and many articles on gender and cultural studies, spirituality and literature, and travel literature.
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