Browsing Theses by Author "Poller, Jacob Robert"
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'Dangerously far advanced into the darkness’: the place of mysticism in the life and work of Aldous Huxley
Poller, Jacob Robert (Queen Mary University of London, 2011)This thesis traces Huxley’s abiding preoccupation with mysticism, from his first collection of poetry to his final novel Island (1962). The function of mystics, Huxley argues in Grey Eminence (1941), is to dispel the ...