عنوان

"Should We Try to Self Remember While Playing Snakes and Ladders?"

شماره

LA125467

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"Should We Try to Self Remember While Playing Snakes and Ladders?"

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ricki O'Rawe

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Emerging from the Paris surrealist group, the English-born writer and painter Leonora Carrington (England, 1917-Mexico, 2011) was perpetually suspicious of orthodoxy. She often pokes fun at, parodies, and ultimately upsets traditional hierarchies of power. In her work animals impart wisdom, Goddesses loom large, and domestic spaces become sites of occult power. In this article, I investigate Carrington's suspicion of gurus with claims to esoteric truth. Carrington participated in Fourth Way groups run by students of G. I. Gurdjieff (Christopher Fremantle) and P. D. Ouspensky (Rodney Collin). However, while she had a deep interest in the teachings, Carrington remained suspicious of the group practices of the Fourth Way, as can be seen in Elena Poniatowska's fictionalized biography Leonora (2015). This article explores Carrington's contact with the 'Work' in order to shed light on the character of Dr. Gambit in her 1950 novel, The Hearing Trumpet, commonly thought to be a parody of Gurdjieff. In doing so, it will investigate Carrington's feminist objections to the role of the guru, while also contributing to a discussion of the unease some felt toward the praxis of the Fourth Way, despite their attraction to the philosophy. Emerging from the Paris surrealist group, the English-born writer and painter Leonora Carrington (England, 1917-Mexico, 2011) was perpetually suspicious of orthodoxy. She often pokes fun at, parodies, and ultimately upsets traditional hierarchies of power. In her work animals impart wisdom, Goddesses loom large, and domestic spaces become sites of occult power. In this article, I investigate Carrington's suspicion of gurus with claims to esoteric truth. Carrington participated in Fourth Way groups run by students of G. I. Gurdjieff (Christopher Fremantle) and P. D. Ouspensky (Rodney Collin). However, while she had a deep interest in the teachings, Carrington remained suspicious of the group practices of the Fourth Way, as can be seen in Elena Poniatowska's fictionalized biography Leonora (2015). This article explores Carrington's contact with the 'Work' in order to shed light on the character of Dr. Gambit in her 1950 novel, The Hearing Trumpet, commonly thought to be a parody of Gurdjieff. In doing so, it will investigate Carrington's feminist objections to the role of the guru, while also contributing to a discussion of the unease some felt toward the praxis of the Fourth Way, despite their attraction to the philosophy.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

189-208

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

21/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

Art History

اصطلاح موضوعی

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

feminism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Gurdjieff

اصطلاح موضوعی

History

اصطلاح موضوعی

Leonora Carrington

اصطلاح موضوعی

mysticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

surrealism

اصطلاح موضوعی

The Fourth Way

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ricki O'Rawe

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-02101008

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y