'A course of severe and arduous trials' : : Bacon, Beckett and spurious freemasonry in early twentieth-century Ireland / / Lynn Brunet.
The artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and the writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) both convey in their work a sense of foreboding and confinement in bleak, ritualistic spaces. This book identifies many similarities between the spaces and activities they evoke and the initiatory practices of fraternal o...
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| Superior document: | Reimagining Ireland, 6 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reimagining Ireland ;
v. 6. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements vii; Introduction 1; Chapter One Francis Bacon, Royal Arch Rites and the 'Passing of the Veils' 13; Chapter Two Perambulations with the Men of No Popery: Orange Order Themes and the Irish Warrior Tradition in the Art of Francis Bacon 37; Chapter Three Samuel Beckett's Plays: Waiting for Godot: A Parody of Royal Arch Rites? 63; Chapter Four Samuel Beckett's Plays: Ritual Movements, Subjective States, Torture and Trauma 85; Chapter Five Initiatory Rites in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable and Other Prose 117
- Chapter Six Trauma, Druidism and the Gnostic Tradition in the Work of Bacon and Beckett 139Appendix Francis Bacon websites 151; Notes 153; Select Bibliography 189; Index 203