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1. Beyond Belief: Literature, Esotericism Studies, and the Challenges of Biographical Reading in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist

   Autor*in: Ferguson, Christine

   Erschienen: 2022

   Over the last decade, esotericism studies has witnessed a distinct literary turn, as more and more of the field’s primarily religious studies-based researchers have recognized the value, and indeed, centrality, of imaginative literature to the... mehr

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   Over the last decade, esotericism studies has witnessed a distinct literary turn, as more and more of the field’s primarily religious studies-based researchers have recognized the value, and indeed, centrality, of imaginative literature to the transmission of occult and new religious ideas. Although welcome, this impetus has sometimes taken an anti-aesthetic shape, reducing the texts it incorporates to little more than empirical evidence of authorial belief or practical occult experience. Accompanying this tendency has been a suspicion of the formalist, post-modern, and/or political forms of interpretation common within contemporary literary studies as being ideologically tainted or even wilfully perverse in their resistance to surface meaning. My article uses a case study of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist (1926), a seemingly straightforward example of an emic novel whose author’s spiritualist belief and conversionist intentions are well known, to demonstrate the limitations of such a biographically reductionist hermeneutic, and to call for a greater diversity of approach within literary esotericism studies.

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   Quelle:	Verbundkataloge
   Sprache:	Englisch
   Medientyp:	Aufsatz aus einer Zeitschrift
   Format:	Online
   Weitere Identifier:	doi: 10.1163/15700593-20211002
   Übergeordneter Titel:	Enthalten in: Aries; Leiden : Brill, 2001; 22(2022), 2, Seite 205-230; Online-Ressource
   Schlagworte:	afterlife writing; Professor Challenger; biographical interpretation; Literature and Esotericism Studies; spiritualism; The Land of Mist (1925–1926); Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)