Stuart McWilliams
Biographic Data
| ID | 6693559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart McWilliams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | McWilliams |
| SIGNATURE | MCWILLIAMS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The guilt of the past
This article reflects playfully on poetic and periodic conceptions of the Middle Ages, with a view to establishing connections (direct as well as analogical) between the inscription of periodic claustrality and the formal structure of verse. As a means of defamiliarising the subjects at hand, the notion of authenticity is deployed in uncommon guises; in particular, the authentic is framed as ‘the culpable’ (that is, an agent regarded as identical…
Aleister Crowley's Graphomania and the Transformations of Magical Inscriptivity
This article attempts a preliminary genealogy of the bibliophile activities of Aleister Crowley, who compulsively self-published books as well as periodicals. The article identifies a series of decisive transformations and shifts (from “codification” to “currency”) in the history of magical inscription and dissemination, each of which contributed to the book-thinking of occultism at the fin de siècle and beyond. More broadly, the article historic…
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
The historical and ethnographic study of magic has long been perplexed by the magic-religion-science categorical triad made famous by James Frazer and other early anthropologists (including the more subtle Bronisław Malinowski). Having now self-consciously departed from the evolutionary narratives that sponsored this formulation, scholars are faced with the challenge of making distinctions between these categories-or refusing to make them-without…
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Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
The historical and ethnographic study of magic has long been perplexed by the magic-religion-science categorical triad made famous by James Frazer and other early anthropologists (including the more subtle Bronisław Malinowski). Having now self-consciously departed from the evolutionary narratives that sponsored this formulation, scholars are faced with the challenge of making distinctions between these categories-or refusing to make them-without…
Aleister Crowley's Graphomania and the Transformations of Magical Inscriptivity
This article attempts a preliminary genealogy of the bibliophile activities of Aleister Crowley, who compulsively self-published books as well as periodicals. The article identifies a series of decisive transformations and shifts (from “codification” to “currency”) in the history of magical inscription and dissemination, each of which contributed to the book-thinking of occultism at the fin de siècle and beyond. More broadly, the article historic…
The guilt of the past
This article reflects playfully on poetic and periodic conceptions of the Middle Ages, with a view to establishing connections (direct as well as analogical) between the inscription of periodic claustrality and the formal structure of verse. As a means of defamiliarising the subjects at hand, the notion of authenticity is deployed in uncommon guises; in particular, the authentic is framed as ‘the culpable’ (that is, an agent regarded as identical…
Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Currency (1 work) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 work) · Geometry (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Inscribed figure (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Mathematics (1 work)