Hidden mutualities : Faustian themes from gnostic origins to the postcolonial /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2006.
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Series: | Cross/cultures ;
87 |
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=198371 |
Table of 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.