A Course Of Severe And Arduous Trials

Author : Lynn Brunet
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039118544

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A Course of Severe and Arduous Trials by Lynn Brunet Pdf

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 orders and secret societies that were an integral part of the social landscape of the Ireland experienced by both men during childhood. Many of these Irish societies modelled their ritual structures and symbolism on the Masonic Order. Freemasons use the term 'spurious Freemasonry' to designate those rituals not sanctioned by the Grand Lodge. The Masonic author Albert Mackey argues that the spurious forms were those derived from the various cult practices of the classical world and describes these initiatory practices as 'a course of severe and arduous trials'. This reading of Bacon's and Beckett's work draws on theories of trauma to suggest that there may be a disturbing link between Bacon's stark imagery, Beckett's obscure performances and the unofficial use of Masonic rites.

Author : Maureen O'Connor
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 3034301413

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Back to the Future of Irish Studies by Maureen O'Connor Pdf

This Festschrift for Professor Tadhg Foley of the National University of Ireland, Galway, who retired in 2009, gathers together international contributors in the fields of poetry, politics and academia to honour this great man's life and work. Professor Foley has not only been central in the development of Irish Studies and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies in Ireland and in the United States, but he has also enjoyed a long career as convivial host in his thatched cottage in Salthill, Galway. He remains one of the most popular and beloved figures in Irish academia. Among the eminent scholars included in the volume are Terry Eagleton, Robert Young, Penny Boumelha, David Lloyd, Luke Gibbons, Joep Leerssen and Maud Ellmann. The book is further enriched by poets Bernard O'Donoghue, Louis de Paor, Rita Ann Higgins, Michael D. Higgins and Tom Duddy. This collection is a rare and distinctive gathering of true and resonant voices, offering a unique portrait of late twentieth-century Irish literary and academic culture and its interplay with the United States.

Author : Eugene O'Brien
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 3039115391

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"Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse" by Eugene O'Brien Pdf

This collection of essays reconsiders aspects of Irish studies through the medium of literary and cultural theory. The author looks at the negotiations between texts and their contexts and then analyses how the writer both reflects and transforms aspects of his or her cultural milieu. The essays examine literary texts by W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce and Sean Ó'Faoláin; media texts such as Father Ted, American Beauty and a series of Guinness advertisements; as well as cultural and political contexts such as globalisation, religion, the Provisional IRA and media treatment of murders in Ireland. The author also looks at aspects of the postcolonial and feminist paradigms and makes use of a theoretical matrix based on the work of Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.

Author : Lynn Brunet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429857201

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Answer to Jung by Lynn Brunet Pdf

The Red Book is C.G. Jung’s record of a period of deep penetration into his unconscious mind in a process that he called ‘active imagination’, undertaken during his mid-life period. Answer to Jung: Making Sense of ‘The Red Book’ provides a close reading of this magnificent yet perplexing text and its fascinating images, and demonstrates that the fantasies in The Red Book are not entirely original, but that their plots, characters and symbolism are remarkably similar to some of the higher degree rituals of Continental Freemasonry. It argues that the fantasies may be memories of a series of terrifying initiatory ordeals, possibly undergone in childhood, using altered or spurious versions of these Masonic rites. It then compares these initiatory scenarios with accounts of ritual trauma that have been reported since the 1980s. This is the first full-length study of The Red Book to focus on the fantasies themselves and provide such an external explanation for them. Sonu Shamdasani describes The Red Book as an incomplete task that Jung left to posterity as a ‘message in a bottle’ that would someday come ashore. Answer to Jung brings its message to shore, providing a coherent, but disturbing, interpretation of each of the fantasies and their accompanying images.

Author : Albert G. Mackey
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UGA:32108061191709

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The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey Pdf

A legend differs from an historical narrative only in this-that it is without documentary evidence of authenticity. It is the offspring solely of tradition. Its details may be true in part or in whole. There may be no internal evidence to the contrary, or there may be internal evidence that they are altogether false. But neither the possibility of truth in the one case, nor the certainty of falsehood in the other, can remove the traditional narrative from the class of legends. It is a legend simply because it rests on no written foundation. It is oral, and therefore legendary.

Author : Eva Urban
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English drama
ISBN : 303430143X

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Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama by Eva Urban Pdf

This book examines theatre within the context of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, with reference to a wide variety of plays, theatre productions and community engagements within and across communities. The author clarifies both the nature of the social and political vision of a number of major contemporary Northern Irish dramatists and the manner in which this vision is embodied in text and in performance. The book identifies and celebrates a tradition of playwrights and drama practitioners who, to this day, challenge and question all Northern Irish ideologies and propose alternative paths. The author's analysis of a selection of Northern Irish plays, written and produced over the course of the last thirty years or so, illustrates the great variety of approaches to ideology in Northern Irish drama, while revealing a common approach to staging the conflict and the peace process, with a distinct emphasis on utopian performatives and the possibility of positive change.

Author : Sheri Dion
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781575911502

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French XX Bibliography, Issue #62 by Sheri Dion Pdf

Author : Albert Mackey
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783969530627

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The wisdom of the Freemasonry by Albert Mackey Pdf

Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively, that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that he can know, of the philosophic system which is taught in the institution. All its mysteries and its dogmas, which constitute its philosophy, are intrusted for communication to the neophyte, sometimes to one, sometimes to the other of these two methods of instruction, and sometimes to both of them combined. The Freemason has no way of reaching any of the esoteric teachings of the Order except through the medium of a legend or a symbol.

Author : Brian Arkins
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039119397

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The Thought of W.B. Yeats by Brian Arkins Pdf

This study focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. Since opposites are central to Yeats's thought, the book begins with an analysis of this topic. The author then examines Yeats's views on religion, sex and politics, again scrutinising the opposites at play. The author considers Yeats's adherence to various anti-empirical belief systems and the transformation of his view of sex as largely a romantic concern to his later more 'earthy' perspective. Yeats's fundamentally Tory political inclinations are examined alongside his regrettable espousal of eugenics. In the second part of the book Yeats's view of history and of human character in A Vision are analysed. The author discusses Yeats's two versions of 'Sophocles' and his poems on Byzantium. The final chapter on Yeats's style stresses the pervasive use of embedded phrases and of terminal questions in the poems.

Author : Claire Nally
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303911882X

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Envisioning Ireland by Claire Nally Pdf

Although Yeats is an over-theorized author, little attempt has been made to situate his occult works in the political context of 20th-century Ireland. This book provides a methodology for understanding the political and cultural impulses which informed Yeat's engagement with the otherworld.

Author : Claire Lynch
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3039118560

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Irish Autobiography by Claire Lynch Pdf

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Author : Gerald Morgan,Gavin Hughes
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : France
ISBN : 3034301901

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Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France by Gerald Morgan,Gavin Hughes Pdf

This collection is intended to correct the view that the Irish Free State did not take part in the Second World War. It argues that the 9000 Irish casualties sustained during the conflict came more or less equally from the Southern and Northern parts of the island.

Author : Albert Gallatin Mackey
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:4064066392895

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The Symbolism of Freemasons by Albert Gallatin Mackey Pdf

The Symbolism of Freemasons is a book about the teachings and practices of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, the largest worldwide secret society. Freemasonry evolved from the guilds of stonemasons and cathedral builders of the Middle Ages which regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The author traces the origins of Freemasonry and presents an adequate information and excellent foundation to understanding of how Freemasonry became what it is. The book mainly deals with signs and symbols of Freemasonry, illustrating and explaining its science and philosophy, and its legends and myths, providing a good background for many of the basics of modern day ritual and procedures.

Author : Maureen O'Connor
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 3039119591

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The Female and the Species by Maureen O'Connor Pdf

Describing the Irish as 'female' and 'bestial' is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other 'savages' has had a long history. A link among systems of oppression has been asserted in recent decades by some feminists, but linking women's rights with animal advocacy can be controversial. This strategy responds to the fact that women's inferiority has been alleged and justified by appropriating them to nature, an appropriation that colonialism has also practiced on its racial and cultural others. Nineteenth-century feminists braved such associations, for instance, often asserting vegetarianism as a form of rebellion against the dominant culture. Vegetarianism and animal advocacy have uniquely Irish implications. This study examines a tradition of Irish women writers deploying the 'natural' as a gesture of resistance to paternalist regulation of female energies and as a self-consciously elaborated stage for the performance of Irish identity. They call into question the violent dislocations and disavowals required by figurative practices, particularly when utilizing Irish topography, an already 'unnatural' cultural construct shaped by conflict and suffering.

Author : Edwina Keown,Carol Taaffe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Irish
ISBN : 3039118943

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Irish Modernism by Edwina Keown,Carol Taaffe Pdf

An examination of the emergence, reception and legacy of modernism in Ireland. Engaging with the ongoing re-evaluation of regional and national modernisms, the essays collected here reveal both the importance of modernism to Ireland, and that of Ireland to modernism. This collection introduces fresh perspectives on modern Irish culture that reflect new understandings of the contradictory and contested nature of modernism itself.--