'A course of severe and arduous trials' Bacon, Beckett and spurious freemasonry in early twentieth-century Ireland
The artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and the writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) both convey in their work a sense of foreboding and confinement in bleak, ritualistic spaces. This book identifies many similarities between the spaces and activities they evoke and the initiatory practices of fraternal o...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Peter Lang
c2009.
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| Colección: | Reimagining Ireland ;
v. 6. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009664688806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgements vii; Introduction 1; Chapter One Francis Bacon, Royal Arch Rites and the 'Passing of the Veils' 13; Chapter Two Perambulations with the Men of No Popery: Orange Order Themes and the Irish Warrior Tradition in the Art of Francis Bacon 37; Chapter Three Samuel Beckett's Plays: Waiting for Godot: A Parody of Royal Arch Rites? 63; Chapter Four Samuel Beckett's Plays: Ritual Movements, Subjective States, Torture and Trauma 85; Chapter Five Initiatory Rites in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable and Other Prose 117
- Chapter Six Trauma, Druidism and the Gnostic Tradition in the Work of Bacon and Beckett 139Appendix Francis Bacon websites 151; Notes 153; Select Bibliography 189; Index 203
