1 resultado para Ave Reprodução
em QSpace: Queen's University - Canada
Resumo:
My dissertation examines the traces of inverse (mytho)mysticism, more synchronous with mythical alchemy than transcendent mystery, in H.D.s mature work (1946-1961). Whereas H.D.s earliest works respond to a fin de sicle occultism and a collective psyche troubled by the eschatological distress that, as Susan Acheson writes, was widespread amongst modernist writers grappling with world events and with the implications of Nietzsches inaugural annunciation of modernity in terms of the death of God (187), her later oeuvre is dedicated to the same work of soul undertaken by the secret cult of Night in Vale Ave. Here, her thematic scope faces two ways: backward to ancient Greek mystery cults and their palingenesic rites and forward to depth psychologists searching for the Soul of the World. Vale Ave plays a pronounced role in my study as symbolic guide; in its seventy-four sequences the layering of time in the trilogy of past, present, and future that H.D. had explored during the years of the Second World War in order to get behind the fallen walls of cause and effect collapses into two distinct phases of human originmeeting (evolution) and parting (involution)and the poem invites Lilith and Lucifer to be its archetypal guides. My method for the study is imaginal, entering such disciplines as history, philosophy, and theology and bringing psychological understanding to them. John Walshs introduction to Vale Ave notes H.D.s theme that the human psyche exists in a dimension outside of time and space as well as within them. In Vale Ave, H.D. presents the extremity of this dual-dimensionality: metempsychosis (vii). However, the concept that H.D. investigates is more than a literary processus of characters who adopt different masks and appear at various junctures in a chronological unwinding of history. I explore H.D.'s works as part of a Modernist tradition of writing books of the dead designed not to guide the soul after death, but to draw the gaze upon a nearer thing, as H.D. writes in Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me In Caelum, the wisdom intrinsic in the spirit of life itself.
