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Monthly Archives: May 2013
The Avant-Garde is an Old Man!
Every writer aspiring to break new literary ground has been rattled by that old chestnut from Ecclesiastes: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. And yet … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature
Tagged 1920s, 1950s, 19th century france, 20th Century Literature, Adorno, Apollinaire, Aragon, Artaud, avant garde, beat generation, Beats, Benjamin, books., Breton, Brion Gysin, Calvino, Charles Baudelaire, Chekhov, Clement Greenberg, Conrad, Corso, Cryptogram, dada, DH Lawrence, Dreamscape, Dujardin, Ecclesiastes, Edgar Allan Poe, experimental literature, Ezra Pound, Faulkner, fiction, Frankfurt School, Free Association, Freud, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Ginsberg, Hamsun, Heine, Henry James, Holderlin, Horkheimer, Hybridity, Interior Monologue, Joyce, Kerouac, Kitsch, Lamantia, Laurence Stern, Lipogram, Literature, Lost Generation, Magic Realism, Magic Surrealism, Mansfield, Novalis, Novels, Oscar Wilde, Oulipo, palindrome, Perec, Peter Burger, poetry, Post Modernism, post modernity, post-modern, post-structuralism, Prose, prose and poetry, prose poem, Prose poetry, Proust, Quenau, Renato Poggioli, Rosalind Krauss, Soupault, Stream of Consciousness, Surrealism, TS Eliot, Vanguard, William Burroughs, William James, Woolf, writing
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Conversation with Alan Richardson
As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Reviews
Tagged Alan Richardson, Aleister Crowley, Arthurian Traditions, British Fiction. Literature, Celtic, Charles Seymour, Christine Hartley, D.H. Lawrence, Dion Fortune, esoteric, esotericism, faery, fiction, Gareth Knight, great war, Literature, Magic, Magician, Magick, megaliths, mythology, Newcastle United, novel, Occult, Paganism, qabala, Skylight Press, Sting, Templars, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, William G. Gray, Wiltshire, WW1
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Nick Farrell on Skylight Press
Nick Farrell is an esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. Joining the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17, he started to read everything he could find on the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Literature, British Literature, Esoteric, New authors, New books
Tagged Aurora Aurea, Chic Cicero, Colin Robertson, David Goddard, Dion Fortune, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Druidic order, Druids, Eqyptology, esoteric, Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, esotericism, fiction, Golden Dawn, Great Britain, hermetic order of the golden dawn, HorusHathor, Israel Regardie, Journalism, Journalist, Lupa, Magic, Magick, mysticism, New Zealand, Nick Farrell, novel, Occult, occultism, Paganism, Pat Zalewski, Pendragon, Peregrin Wildoak, Pharos, Rome, Samuel Mathers, Servants of the Light, Shamanism, Skylight Press, Tabatha Cicero, Talismans, tarot, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Whare Ra, William Wynn Wescott
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