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Blake and Tradition
Blake and Tradition Kathleen Raine, 1962 Part 1: The Northern Sun: Visions of a Sage: The Swedenborgian Songs and Jacob Boehme and Tiriel Part 2: The Myth of the Soul: The Sea of Time and Space, Thel and The Myth … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Mythology, Poetry, Psychology, Religion
Tagged 1962, Blake and Tradition, Cave of Nymphs, Demiurge, Demon Red, Descent, Emblems of Love, Gates of Birth and Death, Hermetic Myth, Jacob Boehme, Jesus, Kathleen Raine, Liquid Venus, Mental Travelers, Moist Soul, Oothoon, Percy Bryce Shelley, Persephone, Prometheus Unbound, Selfhood, Spectors and Watchers, Suffering and Return, The Ancient Trees, The Children of Urizen, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Myth of Kore, The Northern Sun, The Sea of Time and Space, The Swedenborgian Songs, The Tyger, The Zoas of Energy, Tiriel, Vaughan's Cave
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In The Company of Rilke
In the Company of Rilke: Why A 20th Century Visionary Poet So Eloquently to 21st Century Readers By Stephanie Dowrick Thomas Merton says, “Rilke is a poet. Is that a small thing?” It is a Rhetorical Question. It is no … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 20th Century Visionary, 21st Century, Affairs, affect, Alice Miller, Artist, Direct Experience of God, effect, Eloquently, Equal to God, German, Gifted Child, God, Harmony, Heart, Hiddeness, In The Company of Rilke, Intensity, Inwardness, Kabir, Language, Letters, Lieben und Tod, Love, Lovers, Mind, Modern Age, Mystic, Poet, Poetry, Prophet, Psalm 42, Rearder, Robert Bly, Rumi, Sadness, Sensitive, Soul, St John of the Cross, Stephanie Dowrick, Swan, Terror of Beauty, The Open, theism, Thomas Merton, Transcendence, Truth, Union, Writing
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Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison Edward C Reilly, 1996 Jim Harrison was born December 11, 1937 in Grayling, Michigan. In 1945 he was blinded in one eye. He was having his first sexual experience when the girl jabbed in the eye with a … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged A Good Day To Die, Alfred, Blinded, Cormac McCarthy, Depression, Epic, Essay, farmer, Faulkner, Fiction, Going Places, Hemingway, Jim Harrison, Julip, Just Before Dark, Larry Brown, Legends of the Fall, Ludlow, Macho Fiction, Michigan, Native Americans, Plain Song, Poetry, PTSD, Revenge. Tristian, Saga, Salva, Samuel, self-sufficiency, Short Story, Soundings, Sundog, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Warlock, Wilderness, Wolf
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Dracula in the Dark: Film Adaptations of Dracula
Dracula in the Dark: The Film Adaptations of Dracula By James Craig Holte, 1997 Vampires often shapshift, particularly on film. Varney The Vampyre came first, then Carmilla and then Dracula. CLASSICS 1922: Nosferatu 1931: Bella Lugosi’s Dracula 1979: Frank Langella … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, Anne Rice, Bella Lugosi, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carmilla, Children of Eve, Christabell, Christopher Lee, Count Chocula, Dark Beauty and the Beast, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dracula Dead and Loving It, Elizabeth Bathory, Films, Frank Langella, Gothic Romance, Greek Mythology, Has Dracula Become More Like Us or Have We Become More Like Him?, Lamia, Legia, Lenore, Lillith, Movies, My Grandpa is a Vampire, Nosferatu, Once Bitten, Salem's Lot, Satanic Rituals, The Biography of Dracula, The Bride of Corinth, The Brides of Dracula, The Castle of Otranto, The Count on Sesame Street, The Devil and the Evil Spirits of Babylonia, The Gothic Flame, The Iliad, The Interview with a Vampire, The Italian, The Land Beyond the Forest, The Lost Boys, The Monk, The Mysteries of Uldopho, The Odyssey, The Prince of Darkness, Vamprie Cop, Varney The Vampyre, Video, Yama
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Dracula: The Vampire and The Critics
Dracula: The Vampire and Critics Edited by Margaret L Carter, 1988 Themes of Racial Purity and the Terror over Race are in Dracula. There is the subtext Darwinian struggle of Global Politics in Dracula. Britain had imperial opposition during Stoker’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1988, Army of Light, Camilla, Charles Dickins, Demeter, Devendra P. Varma, Dracula The Vampire and the Criticis, Gender, Gender and Inversion, Ghosts, Great Expectations, Hawthorne, Homosexuality, House of the Seven Gables, JRR Tolkien, Lombroso's Ciriminal Man, Lucy as a Symbol For The West, Margaret L Carter, Marx, Menstral Blood, Middlemarch, Narrative Methods in Dracula, Opedial Father, Origins of Dracula, Otherness, Persephone, Psychological Repression, Racial Purity, Sauron and Dracula, Terror, The Genesis of Dracula, The Lady in White, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Underworld, Vampires, Vlad the Impaler, Wolves, Women
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Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker By Barbara Belford, 1976 Bram had a frigid wife. He went to prostitutes—especially during the menstruation period. Bram wanted to grow as a person, but he felt he couldn’t. Bram was aware of the subtext in his own … Continue reading
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Tagged Actor, An Account of the Principalties of Wallachia and Moldavia, Anti-Feminist, Blarney, Blood, Bram Stoker, Byron, childhood, Demeter, Desdemona, Devil, Dracula, Edgar Alan Poe, education, Ellen Terry, Emily Bronte, Empress, Fates of Fernella, Father Figure, Florence, Fool, Government, Hangman, Harker, Ill, Incest, infanticide, Irving, Jonathan, Le Vampires, Lovres, Lucy, M Names, Magician, Mark Twain, MIddle Class, Mina, Movie, Nosferatu, Ophelia, patricide, Research, Sex, Sexual, Shakespeare, Sharp, sibling rivalry, social ills, taboo, tarot cards, Teeth, The Fall of the House of Usher, Theater, Vampires, Victorian, Vlad Dracul, Walt Whitman, Whitby, William Wilkerson, Wuthering Heights
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