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Shamanic elements in the poetry of Ted Hughes / by Ewa Panecka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Panecka, Ewa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hughes, Ted.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 143 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- Shamanism is not a religion, but a technique of achieving ecstasy through chanting, the beating of a drum and the shaking of a rattle, all with the aim of communing with the spirits and rescue afflicted souls.If poetry is a healing substance, poets are shamans of words, who journey into the magic land of art in order to bring the energy and imagery of dreams into physical reality. Shamans, the poets of consciousness, can heal the soul and thus lead the reader to spiritual rebirth and moral regeneration.The book interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer - the Poet Laureate who claimed that England had lost her soul which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of the Gravesian White Goddess, the embodiment of Nature.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Ted Hughes as Shaman
- Hughes and Tradition
- Shamanistic Knowledge of Death
- Shamanistic Healing
- Healing Akin to Mythmaking
- Hughes' Mythological Scenarios
- Chapter One
- The 'Episodic' and the 'Encyclopaedic' in Hughes Animal Poems
- Hawk
- Jaguar
- Otter
- Fox
- Chapter Two
- Crow - Journey Towards Enlightenment
- The Journey of Crow
- How to Interpret the Myth
- Workings of Pragmatic Myth
- The Language of Crow is Shamanic
- Chapter Three
- Cave Birds - An Alchemical Cave Drama or a Tribal Myth?
- Historical Myth
- Alchemical Drama
- Sufi Fable
- The White Goddess - Usurpation of the Feminine
- Death and Rebirth
- Chapter Four
- Gaudete - Reconciliation of the Inner and Outer World in Terms of Gender
- Cockpit or 'the Despotism of the Eye'
- Reverend Lumb as Shaman
- Hades and Dionysos are One
- Parzival and His Brother
- The Myth of Gaudete
- Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-1031-X
- OCLC:
- 1031847724
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