The Mazeppist

The manifesto of a one man movement to reinvent the Romantic Orientalism of figures such as William Blake, Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Lord Byron, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Marshall Hodgson, and Norman O. Brown--purged of imperialistic ambition by the refining fire of historical reflection.

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Name: Resist. Refuse. Renounce.
Location: Dar al-Hijra, Colorado, United States

Part Irish, part Dervish, Pantagruelist and elegist ["The elegist spoke in his own person, usually voicing admonitions on politics, warfare, and moral conduct, but occasionally dealing with convivial subjects" Moses Hadas, A History of Latin Literature (1952), 184]. I am a critic, historian and comparatist of religious literatures. An unreconstructed Utopian, I dream that I will live to see the dismantling of the Plutocratic War Party presently in power in these United States through the active, non-violent, non-cooperation of its citizenry.

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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Findings: To the Rescue of Romanticism

Re-inventing Romantic Orientalism in a manner that places "East" and "West" on an equal footing of mutual respect and inquiry and then, in the process, dissolves the imaginary borders that make "East" "East" and "West" "West" requires a Romantic resurgence. Any Romantic resurgence must grapple with the dirt done on Romanticism by its detractors over the years. This 1940 article by Jacques Barzun is a good place to start:

Findings: To the Rescue of Romanticism

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