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Tag Archives: Catholicism
The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth
“We are the collective pronoun not to be named; the sacred amalgam, the response harbingers around the fringes of refinery. We are informers and fetishists, sycophants and revolutionaries, the pliant in the trenches of experience, the silent mummers in supplication … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry
Tagged theatre, Catholicism, poetry, English poetry, British poetry, Magic, British Literature, English history, Daniel Staniforth, Literature, Occult, Plays, alchemy, ritual, History, Religion, Literary Criticism, Western Mysteries, English literature, Tudor History, postmodern, Christianity, Gospels, Drama, Church, Church history, Shakespeare, Mystery Schools, Theology, Walter Raleigh, esotericism, John Dee, Ancient Britain, Templars, William Shakespeare, Elizabethan History, Globe, Swan, Shakespearean Criticism, Heresy, Orthodoxy, Gordiano Bruno, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Witchcraft, conspiracy, Ben Johnson, Christopher Marlowe, Seneca, Holinshed, Montaigne, Rosicrucians, Masons, Cathars, Playwrights
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Scourging and Buffeting: Jurors in the Court of Torture and Blame!
Anyone who has seen Mel Gibson’s films will know that he is quite fond of accentuating torture scenes – almost to the point of fetishisation. Whether it’s Detective Riggs, William Wallace, or an emaciated Jesus Christ, we have become accustomed … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Uncategorized
Tagged ancient stage, Apocrypha, Blame, Buffeting and Scourging, canonical sources, Catholicism, Christian history, Christianity, Church, Church history, Complicity, Dark Ages, Drama, Gospels, Jesus Christ, Jewish history, mediaeval, Medieval, Mel Gibson, Mystery Plays, Passion of the Christ, Passion Plays, Religion, Revisionist history, Roman History, theatre, torture, torture scenes, Towneley Cycle
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A Tribute to the Late Hugh Fox
A Tribute to the Late Hugh Fox by Daniel Staniforth The small press king is dead – long live his unending fox-trot. Long strut the dance of his unquenchable quill, and that clack-clack clog-riffing through the sweet meanders of … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, New authors, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged academia, American fiction, American literature, American novel, American Poetry, Anias Nin, Anthropology, Archeology, avant garde, beat generation, Beat poetry., Bukowski, Catholicism, Chicago, Cosmep, experimental literature, fiction, Fullbright Scholar, Ghost Dance, History, Hugh Fox, Judaism, Kerouac, Latin American History, lit zine, Literary Criticism, Literature, Michigan, Mythography, mythology, novel, poetry, Publishing, Pushcart prize, Religion, small press, Small Press Publishing
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Hugh Fox on Skylight Press
We’re very excited to have among our authors the enigmatically brilliant American poet and academic Hugh Fox. A co-founder of the Pushcart Prize for Literature (alongside Anaïs Nin and others), a champion of small-press publishing and creator of the avant-garde … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, New authors
Tagged Catharism, Catholicism, Depths and Dragons, fiction, Hugh Fox, Judaism, Paris, Toulouse
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