This study examines the important, yet underexamined, influence of Éliphas Lévi’s Mediterranean esotericism upon English literature at the turn of the twentieth century by tracing the way his Hermetic philosophy was received and transformed by the literary imaginations of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen and Aleister Crowley. Fundamental to Lévi’s venture was the rehabilitation of magic as a sacred...
This article aims to investigate the perdurable presence of shamanic archetypes across world literatures with a particular emphasis on English and Turkic narrative traditions. As a manifestation of the primordial spiritual practice, shamanism provides a solid framework for understanding the tenacious engagement of humanity with transcendental experiences, healing rituals, the search for...