Ritual Art: Political, Social and Religious Subversion in the Dramatic Works of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley
The ritual plays of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley question the dominant political, social, and religious values of their time, contravening traditional ideas of ritual as a conservative social force. This study analyses Yeats’s Celtic Mysteries rituals and Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis acco...
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| description | The ritual plays of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley question the dominant political, social, and religious values of their time, contravening traditional ideas of ritual as a conservative social force. This study analyses Yeats’s Celtic Mysteries rituals and Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis according to changing scholarly theories of ritual. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4a8d61592c0346d0b1b09d67edc92db72022-12-22T16:22:37ZengUniversity of EdinburghForum1749-97712013-12-011710.2218/forum.17.684684Ritual Art: Political, Social and Religious Subversion in the Dramatic Works of William Butler Yeats and Aleister CrowleyAmy Clanton0University of South Florida, TampaThe ritual plays of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley question the dominant political, social, and religious values of their time, contravening traditional ideas of ritual as a conservative social force. This study analyses Yeats’s Celtic Mysteries rituals and Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis according to changing scholarly theories of ritual.http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/684 |
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| title | Ritual Art: Political, Social and Religious Subversion in the Dramatic Works of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley |
| title_full | Ritual Art: Political, Social and Religious Subversion in the Dramatic Works of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley |
| title_fullStr | Ritual Art: Political, Social and Religious Subversion in the Dramatic Works of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ritual Art: Political, Social and Religious Subversion in the Dramatic Works of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley |
| title_short | Ritual Art: Political, Social and Religious Subversion in the Dramatic Works of William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley |
| title_sort | ritual art political social and religious subversion in the dramatic works of william butler yeats and aleister crowley |
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