Mysticism In American Literature

Author : Paul Hourihan
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781931816137

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Mysticism in American Literature by Paul Hourihan Pdf

Much has been written about Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman as prominent writers, but much less research has been done regarding their spirituality, which gave power to the writing of their unique classics. This award-winning study focusing on the mysticism in the lives and major works of Thoreau and Whitman, two great American literary mystics of the 19th century remedies that. You'll find out: - How their principal works were inspired by their spiritual revelations and struggles. - What the deeper meanings are in key passages from Thoreau's classic, "Walden"; and Whitman's provocative and ground-breaking poem, "Song of Myself" - How their spirituality reflected their very different personalities and characters. By understanding the wisdom and strengths as well as the faults, and failings of these great men of letters, we can know ourselves better. As Dr. Chari states in the Foreword: "At a time like this, Dr. Hourihan performs a valuable service by his courageous reaffirmation of what is of permanent value in the lives and works of two of the most original minds in American literature."

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786480029

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The Influence of Mysticism on 20th Century British and American Literature by David Garrett Izzo Pdf

This volume discusses the relationships between the philosophy of Mysticism, which traces its lineage back into prehistory, with that of the world of more traditional philosophy and literature. The author argues for the centrality of mysticism's role in the philosophical and artistic development of western culture. The connections between these worlds are underscored as the author examines the works of Heraclitus, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Iris Murdoch, Yeats, Æ (George Russell), T.S. Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Auden, Huxley, Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Tony Kushner, among others.

Author : Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107401716

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Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon Pdf

Beginning with a precise definition of the term mysticism, Spurgeon explores how mystical thought influenced many of England's finest writers.

Author : Paul Hourihan
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781931816168

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Whitman's Self by Paul Hourihan Pdf

OPEN THE HEART of Self-Discovery through the Life and Amazing Works of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman was known as the "Good Gray Poet" who paved the way for modern American poetry. The epithets "good" and "gray" make Whitman sound dull to the modern reader, yet Whitman was anything but dull. In "Whitman's Self: Mysticism in the Life and Writings of Walt Whitman," Paul Hourihan explores how Whitman's spiritual revelations and struggles informed his most significant works--especially his ground-breaking poem "Song of Myself." "Whitman's Self" contains insightful and provocative interpretations of Whitman's writing that will intrigue those who know Walt Whitman well ... as well as those who are just getting introduced to him. "At a time like this, Dr. Hourihan performs a valuable service by his courageous reaffirmation of what is of permanent value in the life and works of one of the most original minds in American literature." - Dr. V. K. Chari, author of "Whitman in the Light of Vedantic Mysticism"

Author : Paul Douglass
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813132371

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Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature by Paul Douglass Pdf

Author : Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503388387

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Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon Pdf

"[...]words, it leads to the belief that "the Ideal is the only Real." Further, if unity lies at the root of things, man must have some share of the nature of God, for he is a spark of the Divine. Consequently, man is capable of knowing God through this godlike part of his own nature, that is, through his soul or spirit. For the mystic believes that as the intellect is given us to apprehend material things, so the spirit is given us to apprehend spiritual things, and that to disregard the spirit in spiritual matters, and to trust to reason is as foolish as if a carpenter, about to begin a piece of work, were deliberately to reject his keenest and sharpest tool. The methods of mental and spiritual knowledge are entirely different. For we know a thing mentally by looking at it from outside, by comparing it[...]".

Author : Caroline Spurgeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798595241267

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Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline Spurgeon Pdf

The variety of applications of the term "mysticism"' has forced me to restrict myself here to a discussion of that philosophical type of mysticism which concerns itself with questions of ultimate reality. My aim, too, has been to consider this subject in connection with great English writers. I have had, therefore, to exclude, with regret, the literature of America, so rich in mystical thought.

Author : Caroline Spurgeon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781473375208

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Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline Spurgeon Pdf

"Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery" is an 1882 novel by the seminal French author Jules Verne. It tells the story of the wealthy Godfrey Morgan and his department instructor, Professor T. Artelett, who set off together on an epic adventure around the world. After becoming stranded on an island in the Pacific, they work together with an African slave in order to survive. The chapters of this book include: “Chapter I – In which the Reader has the Opportunity of Buying an Island in the Pacific Ocean”, “Chapter II – How William W. Kolderup, of San Francisco, was at Loggerheads with J. R. Taskiunar, of Stockton”, “ Chapter III – The Conversation of Phina Hollaney and Godfrey Morgan, with a piano accompaniment”, etcetera. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Author : David C. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083083284X

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Into the Region of Awe by David C. Downing Pdf

David C. Downing explores mysticism as a part of C. S. Lewis's faith and writing. He addresses both the influence on Lewis by mystical writers of his own day and the threads of mysticism evident in Lewis's works.

Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438461205

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Philosophy of Mysticism by Richard H. Jones Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones’s inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality and of human beings; value claims about what is significant and what is ethical; and mystical goals and ways of life. Jones engages language, epistemology, metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of mind. Methodological issues in the study of mysticism are also addressed. Examples of mystical experience are drawn chiefly from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but also from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Daoism. Richard H. Jones is the author of several books, including Mysticism Examined: Philosophical Inquiries into Mysticism, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Toby Davidson
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621967941

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Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry by Toby Davidson Pdf

Australian poetry is popularly conceived as a tradition founded by the wry, secular and stoic strains of its late-nineteenth-century bush balladeers Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson and ‘Banjo’ Paterson, consolidated into a land-based ‘vigour’ in publications such as the Bulletin. Yet this popular conception relies on not actually consulting the poetry itself, which for well over one hundred and fifty years has been cerebral, introspective, feminine and highly — even experimentally — religious. This book casts Australian poetry in a new light by showing how Australian Christian mystical poetics can be found in every era of Australian letters, how literary hostilities towards women poets, eroticism and contemplation served to stifle a critical appreciation of mystical poetics until recent decades, and how in the twentieth century one Australian Christian mystical poet began to influence another and share their appreciations of Dante, Donne, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth, Brontë, Rossetti, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot and Lowell.

Author : Liam Peter Temple
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273935

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Mysticism in Early Modern England by Liam Peter Temple Pdf

Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.

Author : Kyle Garton-Gundling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814255248

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Enlightened Individualism by Kyle Garton-Gundling Pdf

Reconciles seemingly conflicting views of Asian transcendence and American freedom to argue that post-WWII American writers envision a more enlightened individualism.

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226453835

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Mutants and Mystics by Jeffrey J. Kripal Pdf

"Account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science. Delving deeply into the work of major figures in the field - from Jack Kirby's cosmic superhero sagas and Philip K. Dick's futuristic head-trips to Alan Moore's sex magic and Whitley Strieber's communion with visitors - Kripal shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they experienced in their lives. Expanded consciousness found its language in the metaphors of sci-fi - incredible powers, unprecedented mutations, time-loops and vast intergalactic intelligences - and the deeper influences of mythology and religion that these in turn drew from ; the wildly creative work that followed caught the imaginations of millions. Moving deftly from Cold War science and Fredric Wertham's anticomics crusade to gnostic revelation and alien abduction, Kripal spins out a hidden history of American culture, rich with mythical themes and shot through with an awareness that there are other realities far beyond our everyday understanding."--Jacket.

Author : William Barclay Parsons,William B. Parsons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199751198

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Teaching Mysticism by William Barclay Parsons,William B. Parsons Pdf

The term ''mysticism'' has never been consistently defined or employed, either in religious traditions or in academic discourse. The essays in this volume offer ways of defining what mysticism is, as well as methods for grappling with its complexity in a classroom.This volume addresses the diverse literature surrounding mysticism in four interrelated parts. The first part includes essays on the tradition and context of mysticism, devoted to drawing out and examining the mystical element in many religious traditions. The second part engages traditions and religio-cultural strands in which ''mysticism'' is linked to other terms, such as shamanism, esotericism, and Gnosticism. The volume's third part focuses on methodological strategies for defining ''mysticism,'' with respect to varying social spaces. The final essays show how contemporary social issues and movements have impacted the meaning, study, and pedagogy of mysticism.Teaching Mysticism presents pedagogical reflections on how best to communicate mysticism from a variety of institutional spaces. It surveys the broad range of meanings of mysticism, its utilization in the traditions, the theories and methods that have been used to understand it, and provides critical insight into the resulting controversies.