'A course of severe and arduous trials' : Bacon, Beckett and spurious freemasonry in early twentieth-century Ireland / / Lynn Brunet.

• Superior document: Reimagining Ireland, 6
• Author: Brunet, Lynn, 1953-
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2009
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Reimagining Ireland ; v. 6.
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• הערות: Description based upon print version of record.

The artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and the writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) both convey in their work a sense of foreboding and confinement in bleak, ritualistic spaces. This book identifies many similarities between the spaces and activities they evoke and the initiatory practices of fraternal o...