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The Literary Arts
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2021
Performances and lectures that originate from the ongoing regular meetings and work of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. For news and information about the Section and its activities, visit TheLiteraryArts.com.
“The fairytale is the touchstone of poetry . . . everything poetic must be like a fairytale. The poet worships chance.” - Novalis
“Fairytales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious processes . . .” - Marie-Louise von Franz
“Fairytales and sagas are comparable to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life’s wanderings, to be a trustworthy comrade throughout . . ." - Rudolf Steiner (paraphrasing Wilhelm Grimm)
May the viewer flourish!
“The fairytale is the touchstone of poetry . . . everything poetic must be like a fairytale. The poet worships chance.” - Novalis
“Fairytales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious processes . . .” - Marie-Louise von Franz
“Fairytales and sagas are comparable to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life’s wanderings, to be a trustworthy comrade throughout . . ." - Rudolf Steiner (paraphrasing Wilhelm Grimm)
May the viewer flourish!
Ghost Modernism / Poetry, Literature, Spiritual Science
A presentation given at a meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. This meeting occurred in February, 2024. This is the companion video to the lecture video "The Poet and the Dead."
May the viewer flourish!
May the viewer flourish!
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"The Poet and the Dead" by Albert Steffen
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A chapter from the book "Der Genius des Todes" by Albert Steffen, 1943, Verlag für Schöne Wissenschaften. (Trans. Henry Barnes, from Albert Steffen, "Translation and Tribute," Adonis Press, 1959) This is the companion video to the lecture video "Ghost Modernism." Work arising from the meetings of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North Ameri...
The Jealousy of the Gods / "The Jealousy of Human Beings
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A presentation of Lecture Eight from the cycle "World History in the Light of Anthroposophy" lectures given in the evenings by Rudolf Steiner at the Christmas Conference in 1923. Lecture Eight occurred on New Year's Eve, 1923, and it commemorated the burning of the First Goetheanum, a fire which broke out on New Year's Eve, 1922. This presentation from the Section for the Literary Arts and Huma...
Steps Towards a Poetry of Knowing / Rudolf Steiner's "First Address"
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This video is an edited recording of a meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America that occurred on April 22, 2022. It is the companion video to "The Dark Forest: A Fairytale; In Search of Ars Poetica." May the viewer flourish!
The Dark Forest
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""The Dark Forest: A Fairytale / In Search of Ars Poetica." Does the work of our Section really matter? What do we do? Why do we do it? This video is a recording of the presentation given at the April 22, 2022 meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. This video should be viewed with its companion video from the same meetin...
Arvia MacKaye / A Young American Woman at the Christmas Conference, 1923
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At a meeting on December 7, 2023 of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America, I gave a presentation on Arvia MacKaye Ege. Arvia was one of the few Americans (and the only young American woman) who attended the Christmas Conference in Dornach in 1923, when Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society and gave the Foundatio...
"Going for Water"
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Otters swimming and feeding on the American River, upstream from the San Juan rapids. Observed after a heavy rainstorm during Advent, 2022. Poem: "Going for Water" by Robert Frost A video made for a meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America, during a time when the group was studying the scholar and poet Kathleen Raine. May t...
Sovereigns of the Grail
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English-language version of the lecture given at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland in May 2023 at the International Grail Conference. This conference was an event sponsored by the Section for Literary Arts and Humanities (Schöne Wissenschaften) of the School for Spiritual Science. I shortened this English-lnguage version of the original talk in order to fit it into the one-hour time frame ...
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" / Keats
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The poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats. Speech artist: Margit Ilgen. Music composed and played by Bruce Donehower. A project inspired by the Section for Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. Michaelmas 2020. Photo & Video: Bruce Donehower. May the viewer flourish!
"The Bloody Sire" / Robinson Jeffers
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Big Sur poet Robinson Jeffers reads his poem "The Bloody Sire" against the backdrop of a Pacific coast sunset at the tide of St. John, summer 2023. May the viewer flourish!
Introduction to Novalis
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This introductory video was made expressly for the upcoming Festival of Initiative in Manitoba, Canada in August 2023. ThatGoodMayBecome.ca.org In addition to a 20-minute introduction to the German early romantic poet Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg; 1772-1801), this video contains at the end excerpts from performance videos of two fairytales by Novalis. The videos were made by artists who ar...
Goethe's Fairytale / Spiritual Friendship
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A very brief introduction to "The Fairytale of the Green Snake & Beautiful Lily" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe a text that greatly inspired Rudolf Steiner and which Steiner called the "germinal seed" of the anthroposophical movement. This video was made for the Applied Anthroposophy study group (an initiative of the Anthroposophical Society in America) to assist with their study of the Goethe F...
"Mystery of the Two Jesus Children" / Rudolf Steiner's Christology
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An Interpretive Commentary on a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner on September 5, 1910 in Bern, Switzerland. This lecture is found in the cycle of lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew, lectures published online and in various English editions and recently published with the title "According to Matthew." Presentation by Bruce Donehower, Ph.D. This video is a revised and extended version of a live...
"Kathleen Raine; Novalis & William Blake"
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Presentation by Bruce Donehower, PhD This video is a recording of the presentation given at the November 26, 2022 meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. This recorded lecture is a revision and enhancement of the live lecture give at the meeting. May the viewer flourish!
Christiane Haid: "Metamorphoses of the Foundation Stone"
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Christiane Haid gave this talk at a meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. The meeting occurred on December 17 on Zoom. Christiane Haid, Ph.D. is the head of the Section for Beautiful Sciences (Literary Arts & Humanities) and the Section for the Visual Arts at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. In this lecture she giv...
Robert McDermott: "Background to the Gospel of Mark"
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Robert McDermott: "Background to the Gospel of Mark"
O, what can I dedicate to you, o Lord . . ." / Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
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O, what can I dedicate to you, o Lord . . ." / Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
2 Views of Shakespeare / "The Mystery of the Human Personality"
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2 Views of Shakespeare / "The Mystery of the Human Personality"
"Dance the Orange" / Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Dance the Orange" / Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Clifford Venho: "The Genius of the English Language"
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Clifford Venho: "The Genius of the English Language"
Robert McDermott: "Teilhard de Chardin & Rudolf Steiner: On the Sacrality of the Earth"
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Robert McDermott: "Teilhard de Chardin & Rudolf Steiner: On the Sacrality of the Earth"
PART THREE: "Novalis, Magical Idealism, & Rudolf Steiner's Last Address" / 1 of 5 videos.
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PART THREE: "Novalis, Magical Idealism, & Rudolf Steiner's Last Address" / 1 of 5 videos.
Storytelling: "Hannah-My-Hedgehog" by Bruce Donehower
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Storytelling: "Hannah-My-Hedgehog" by Bruce Donehower
PART TWO: "Novalis, Magical Idealism, & Rudolf Steiner's Last Address" / 2 of 5 videos
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PART TWO: "Novalis, Magical Idealism, & Rudolf Steiner's Last Address" / 2 of 5 videos
PART ONE: "Novalis, Magical Idealism, & Rudolf Steiner's Last Address" / 1 of 5 videos.
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PART ONE: "Novalis, Magical Idealism, & Rudolf Steiner's Last Address" / 1 of 5 videos.
"Hyacinth and Rosebud" by Novalis. English
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"Hyacinth and Rosebud" by Novalis. English