An introduction to western esotericism
Subtitle: essays in the hidden meaning of literature, groups, and games
By: Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid ; with a foreword by David Grandy.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; Brand: Edwin Mellen Pr; Edwin Mellen Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780773450196
Subjects: Occultism; Occultism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-145) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A vague feeling of fascination" : western esotericism and introductory-level scholarship; title: The legacy of Jean-Paul Corsetti : western esotericism and the Eurydice of lost scholarship; title: Antoine Faivre to the dark tower came : Robert Browning's Childe Roland as examined by means of a western esotericist paradigm; title: Versluis and Faivre play Cupid : creatively esoteric aspects of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; title: The Epsilon-Sigma Caduceus : the Mantegna tarocchi as a book of ritual for Kappa Sigma; title: The Sola-busca sundial : a Renaissance tarot deck as a mutus liber of ritualistic initiation.