Hidden Mutualities : : Faustian Themes from Gnostic Origins to the Postcolonial / / Michael Mitchell.
Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the 'scientific' world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Euro...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures ; 87 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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
- 10 Gift of the Magus: The Novels of Wilson Harris
- Epilogue
- Bibliography of Works Cited.