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Tag Archives: British Novel
Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: James Joyce – Myth as Narrative
…a brave man would invent something that never happened! Joyce In both Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist and the prototype of the latter – Stephen Hero – Joyce is concerned with the presenting of ‘truth’. Not only is … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Aristotle, books., British Literature, British Novel, Charles Tart, Dublin, Dubliners, Edwardian History, experimental literature, F.H. Bradley, fiction, Fred Alan Wolf, Gordon Strong, Greek Drama, Irish history, Irish literature, James Joyce, Literature, Michael Davis, Mikhail Bakhtin, Modernism, Myth, mythology, novel, philosophy, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Richard Kearney, Stephen Hero, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Ulysses, Victorian History, Werner Heisenberg
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The Magical Battle of Britain: The War Letters of Dion Fortune
“Let us meditate upon angelic Presences, red-robed and armed, patrolling the length and breadth of our land. Visualise a map of Great Britain, and picture these great Presences moving as a vast shadowy form along the coasts, and backwards and … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged archetypal images, British History, British Literature, British mysteries, British Novel, Dion Fortune, esoteric, fiction, fraternity of the inner light, Gareth Knight, Glastonbury Tor, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, Magic, magical battle, Mediumship, Moon Magic, New authors, Occult, order of the golden dawn, Psychology, Qabalah, Sea Priestess, Society of Inner Light, Theosophy, trance mediumship, Uncategorized | Tagged Battle of Britain, violet mary firth, Western Mysteries, World War Two
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Dion Fortune on Skylight Press
Skylight Press is thrilled to reissue the work of one of the most important voices in the Western Mysteries canon. For the purposes of introduction we defer to our own Gareth Knight, not only an expert on her great lineage … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, New authors, Uncategorized
Tagged Battle of Britain, British History, British Literature, British mysteries, British Novel, Dion Fortune, esoteric, fiction, Gareth Knight, Glastonbury Tor, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, Magic, Mediumship, Moon Magic, Occult, order of the golden dawn, Psychology, Qabalah, Sea Priestess, Society of Inner Light, Theosophy, trance mediumship, violet mary firth, Western Mysteries, World War Two
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Visions of the Drowning Man by Dee Sunshine
I have lost these bones/ scattered them in mad patterns like a lunatic shaman/ out of his mind on iboga, trying to pull polar-opposite hemispheres together again. Visions of the Drowning Man is the third book of poetry from Glaswegian … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Art, avant garde, Baudelaire, British Literature, British Novel, British poetry, charcoal drawings, consummate craftsman, d m thomas, Darkwave, Dee Sunshine, Drawing, ecole des beaux arts, edinburgh college of art, Experimental Art, experimental literature, fiction, Glasgow, Gothic literature, hieronymus bosch, Marc Chagall, mercurial nature, Painter, Painting, poetic muse, poetry, poetry reader, poetry zine, Rimbaud, Romantic Poetry, Scotland, Scottish Literature, Scottish Novel, Scottish poetry
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Dee Sunshine on Skylight Press
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Dee Sunshine came to poetry at a young age, winning the Lochaber High School poetry competition in 1979. Soon after he liaised with an active London poetry scene and published a couple of chapbooks. Always interested … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry
Tagged Art, avant garde, Baudelaire, British Literature, British Novel, British poetry, charcoal drawings, Darkwave, Dee Sunshine, Drawing, ecole des beaux arts, edinburgh college of art, Experimental Art, experimental literature, fiction, Glasgow, Gothic literature, Marc Chagall, Painter, Painting, poetry, poetry zine, Rimbaud, Romantic Poetry, Scotland, Scottish Literature, Scottish Novel, Scottish poetry
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The Fat Git by Alan Richardson
Those that are familiar with Alan Richardson’s first two novels, The Giftie and On Winsley Hill, will know that as well as having a rather delightful turn of phrase this author can also tell a rip-roaring story. Richardson’s The Fat … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Richardson, Allegory, Arthur, Arthurian Legends, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, burlesque, comedic purposes, comedy, English fiction, English novel, esoteric, Fable, fairytale, fiction, humour, Malory, Merlin, Myth, mythology, novel, Occult, Parody, postmodern, psychic, sardonic wit, satire, thomas love peacock, Western Mysteries
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