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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- © Edinburgh University Press 2017
- Subject
- Articles; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
- ISSN
- 2041-1022
- eISSN
- 1753-8629
- DOI
- 10.3366/mod.2017.0158
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
<jats:p> This article explores the apocalyptic fervor of 1917 as a context for the rise of the esoteric modernism of W. B Yeats and Aleister Crowley, paying special attention to the contributions of Crowley's Moonchild to a specifically modernist form of esoteric fiction. Moonchild featured a modernist synthesis of ritual, transpersonal epistemology, experimental prose, and a play of competing popular genres in a contemplative fiction that continued to impact twentieth-century culture well beyond the death of its author. This literature turned to communications with spirit entities and to ritual magic to reveal spiritual interpretations of a world in which the flux of modernity augured technologically sophisticated war as a permanent state of affairs, the world of 1917. </jats:p>
Journal
Modernist Cultures – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2017