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Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

By: Miriam Wallraven

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Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

By: Miriam Wallraven

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 as The 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 analysed 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.

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Routledge

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1317581385

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A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction

Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

By: Miriam Wallraven

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A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction

Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

By: Miriam Wallraven

This book is focused on the surprisingly large number of feminist women writers in literary history who use different genres for their feminist ideas while subverting or transgressing established boundaries between fictional and theoretical writing. In particular, texts by such diverse authors as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Mary Robinson, Harriet Martineau, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf, the French Feminists Hélène Cixous and Monique Wittig, Margaret Cavendish, and Michèle Roberts are analysed. This chronological in-depth reading of feminist texts is based on the interrelation of content, genre and discourse. The study provides the first analysis of the phenomenon of the gendering of genre and feminists' troubled involvement in "theory" as well as "literature". In this way, key questions concerning the emergence of feminism during the last four hundred years are presented in a new and revealing light; e.g., for what reason did Mary Wollstonecraft not only write her famous feminist treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but also a novel in which she tests the arguments of her theoretical treatise by means of fiction? What is the significance of Virginia Woolf?s "Novel-Essay" The Pargiters, which seeks to connect theoretical and fictional parts by juxtaposing them? How can the mixture of genres be interpreted which Catherine Clément attributes to the texts of Hélène Cixous as a "writing halfway between theory and fiction?'--Back cover.

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Königshausen & Neumann

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3826035704

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A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction

Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

By: Miriam Wallraven

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Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

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Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction

A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction

A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction

A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction

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