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Shamanic elements in the poetry of Ted Hughes /
Shamanism is not a religion, but a technique of achieving ecstasy through chanting, the beating of a drum and the shaking of a rattle, all with the aim of communing with the spirits and rescue afflicted souls. If poetry is a healing substance, poets are shamans of words, who journey into the magic l...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Ted Hughes as Shaman; Hughes and Tradition; Shamanistic Knowledge of Death; Shamanistic Healing; Healing Akin to Mythmaking; Hughes' Mythological Scenarios; Chapter One; The 'Episodic' and the 'Encyclopaedic' in Hughes Animal Poems; Hawk; Jaguar; Otter; Fox; Chapter Two; Crow
- Journey Towards Enlightenment; The Journey of Crow; How to Interpret the Myth; Workings of Pragmatic Myth; The Language of Crow is Shamanic; Chapter Three; Cave Birds
- An Alchemical Cave Drama or a Tribal Myth?; Historical Myth; Alchemical Drama; Sufi Fable.
- The White Goddess
- Usurpation of the FeminineDeath and Rebirth; Chapter Four; Gaudete
- Reconciliation of the Inner and Outer World in Terms of Gender; Cockpit or 'the Despotism of the Eye'; Reverend Lumb as Shaman; Hades and Dionysos are One; Parzival and His Brother; The Myth of Gaudete; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography.