| Description |
1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Major Literary Authors |
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Studies in major literary authors.
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| Summary |
This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the context of fringe religious movements that were linked with the avant-garde in New York City and Paris at the first of the 20th century. This study shows how these transatlantic movements - including Gurdjieff, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy - gave him the hermeneutical devices, not to mention the creative license, to interpret texts and symbols from mainline religions in an iconoclastic manner |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135913663 |
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1135913668 |
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