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...
Main Author: | Amy Clanton |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2013-12-01
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Series: | Forum |
Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/684 |
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