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Esoteric Symbols The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka

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  • Hardcover, University Press of America, 2007, ISBN13 9780761836735, ISBN10 076183673X
In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka--three masters of symbolic expression--utilized Tarot cards in their poetry and prose. Focusing on the Tarot's ancient associations with divine knowledge, its pictorial representation of both the Jewish and Christian Cabala, and the Tarot's more recent pedestrian affiliation with the occult, June Leavitt skillfully demonstrates how Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka align themselves in their uniquely individual ways with the Tarot symbols' mapping of reality. Paying close attention to the mystical nuances of the Tarot, Ms. Leavitt shows how Tarot symbols allow for radically new readings of the texts in which they are situated, and play a transformative role in the three writers' search for God. This search remained indecisive for Kafka, resulted in Eliot's conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, and went hand in hand with Yeats' passion for pagan gods and angels. In this pioneer ing scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka three masters of symbolic expression utilized Tarot cards in their poetry and prose. Focusing on the Tar Read less

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Number of Pages 157
Number in Series 1
Original Languages English
Subject TAROT, SIGNS AND SYMBOLS, OCCULTISM IN LITERATURE
Author Leavitt, June
Target Audience T
Publisher University Press of America
ISBN-13 9780761836735
Fiction/Nonfiction REF000000
Assembled Product Dimensions (L x W x H) 5.98 x 0.69 x 9.22 Inches
ISBN-10 076183673X

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