Browsing by Subject "Literary criticism"

Browsing by Subject "Literary criticism"

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  • Pomegranate 3 (February 1998) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1998-02)
    The Myth of Historical Narrative: Margaret Murray's The God of the Witches / by Nancy Ramsey -- Excavating Sites of Production: Margaret Murray's Theory of Religion in Context / by Pam A. Detrixhe -- James George Frazier's ...
  • Pomegranate 4 (May 1998) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1998-05)
    The Sacred Marriage: Hierogamy in Grand Opera / by John Yohalem -- The Magician of Shaskespear's The Tempest / by Maggie Carew -- A Yellow Dress at Chilly Brauron: The Taming of Wild Girls / by Kate Slater -- Masks in ...
  • Pomegranate 5 (August 1998) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1998-08)
    Recent Developments in the Study of the Great European Witch Hunt / by Jenny Gibbons -- The Interface of Archaeology and Mythology: A Philosophical Evaluation of the Gimbutas Paradigm / by Mara Keller -- Asherah: Goddess ...
  • Pomegranate 6 (November 1998) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1998-11)
    Reader's Forum. Shakespear, the 9 Million Women, Keller on Gimbutas -- Seidhr and Seidhrworkers: Recovering Shamanic Practice in Contemporary Heathenism / by Jenny Blain -- Journeying the Politics of Ecstasy: Anthropological ...
  • Pomegranate 7 (February 1999) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1999-02)
    Reader's Forum: Keller on Gimbutas and her Critics -- Savitri Devi and the National Socialist Religion of Nature / by Jeffrey Kaplan -- The Stoic Way of Nature: A Pagan Spiritual Path / by Michael McNierney -- Love, Suffering ...
  • Pomegranate 8 (May 1999) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1999-05)
    Readers' Forum. Chaldean Oracles, Archaeology Conference, National Socialism -- Methods of Compassion or Pretension?: Conducting Anthropological Fieldwork in Modern Magical Communities / by Jone Salomonsen -- Whose 'Nature'?: ...
  • Pomegranate 9 (August 1999) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1999-08)
    Readers' Forum. Patriarchal Symbolism, Typography -- Men and 'Women's Magic': Contested Narratives of Gender, Seidhr, and 'Ergi' / by Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis -- Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism / Donald H. ...
  • Popular Frazerism and Re-enchantment 
    Testa, Alessandro (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    The talk will start with a brief overview of the historiography of Frazer's impactful, everlasting legacy in European academic, literary, and pop cultures. It will then focus on one, specific new paradigm, "Popular Frazerism", ...
  • Reading about Nymphs and Roman Soldiers with and without Frazer 
    Köster, Isabel (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    This talk explores the usefulness and pitfalls of using Frazer’s theories to interpret inscriptions that refer to dedications made by (or on behalf of) Roman soldiers to nymphs. Starting with an overview in The Golden ...
  • Rejecting the Embrace of the Goddess? Minoan Archaeology and the Divine Feminine 
    Morris, Christine (Prudence Priest Collection of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    This paper is a point of departure from the Cretan Bronze Age ideas about Minoan female divinity strongly shaped by Sir Arthur Evans, excavator of the palace of Knossos. Evans, in turn, was influenced by contemporaries ...
  • The "Resurrection" of Frazer's Dying Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean Mythology. A Fresh Take on the Divine Death and Resurrection Through Comparison: The Case of Baal, Inanna/Ishtar and Dionysus 
    Corrente, Paola (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    In this presentation, Correntel discusses the myths of Inanna/Ishtar's, Baal's and Dionysus's death and resurrection in a comparative perspective, moving from textual evidence. He also addresses the major critical points ...
  • Same but Different: Frazer’s Sympathetic Law of Similarity and the Greco-Roman defixiones 
    Moorees, Saskia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    Frazer’s typology of ‘sympathetic magic’ proved especially popular in the study of ancient magic after it appeared in The Golden Bough. Frazer’s Law of Similarity, in particular, was predicated on the idea that according ...
  • Sexual Agency of Ishtar in Akkadian Love Literature 
    Nissinen, Martti (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    First Keynote Speaker. The goddess Ištar has multiple gendered agencies in Mesopotamian texts. She features as a lover, mother, daughter, as well as an independent sexual agent who is capable of transgressing gender ...
  • Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 [Event Program] 
    Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 (Conference); Tully, Caroline J.; Budin, Stephanie Lynn; University of Melbourne (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. Archives and Special Collections. Valdosta State University., 2023-02-10)
    Program for the online conference "Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100" hosted by Dr. Caroline J. Tully and Stephanie Budin.
  • Sir James Frazer 
    Hutton, Ronald (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    The author of the Golden Bough was as remarkable as his book, in his professional career, personal life, and political, social and religious attitudes; and these things all deeply informed his approach to scholarship. This ...
  • Tree lore in the Anthropocene - The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids as Oak Seers in Times of Ecological Crisis 
    Brussman, Ive (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    In The Golden Bough Sir James Frazer gives attention to various forms of worshiping of trees and tree spirits − a phenomenon that has prevailed throughout history, in magic, religion, mythology and folklore to the present. ...