Jasnowidzenie i literatura. Przypadek HPB i innych

• Authors: Monika Rzeczycka

Title variants

EN

Clairvoyance and literature. The case HPB and others

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the influence of esoteric philosophy on the European and Russian literature at the turn of the 20th century. The author analyzes the causes of the fascination with clairvoyance (as well as other kinds of extrasensory perception) and examines its various expressions in the works of H.P. Blavatsky, Alexander Aksakov, Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater, Rudolf Steiner, Gustav Meyrink, Maurice Maeterlinck, Andrei Belyi, Leo Kobylinsky-Ellis, Nikolai Roerich et al.

Keywords

EN

clairvoyance; esotericism; modernist literature; Russian literature; ясновидение; литература; оккультизм; сверхчувства; Серебряный век

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Slavica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 158
• Pages: 205 - 215

Contributors

author

Monika Rzeczycka

• Uniwersytet Gdański, Polska,