William Butler Yeats is one of the literary pillars of twentieth century modernism. He was interested in the mystical and mythical elements of the dominant cultures of the world. Accordingly, he interpreted history in a context that broadly negotiated with magic, the occult, theosophy, alchemy, astrology, mythology, mysticism, and religion. He was not attracted to any specific culture, even...
In this creative practice-based project, I explore ways of attending to the unconscious for writing poetry. My dissertation consists of a poetry collection, ‘Hive Mind’, and critical commentary, ‘Listen to the River: attending to the unconscious for poetic production’. I chose the metaphor of listening to the river because my writing process feels like paying attention to something outside of...
This thesis embraces the disciplines of philosophy, art history and practical theology. It is concerned with the ways in which artists have endeavoured to express the numinous or point towards the Transcendent through landscape painting. The Transcendent is described as that recognition in mankind of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining a scientific knowledge of an order...