Modernism and Magic : : Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult / / Leigh Wilson.
Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth centuryThis study presents a new account of the relation between modernism and occult discourses. While modernism’s engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of fa...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 ‘BUT THE FACTS OF LIFE PERSIST’: MAGIC, EXPERIMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTING THE WORLD OTHERWISE
- 2 ‘AND WHAT HAS ALL THIS TO DO WITH EXPERIMENTAL WRITING?’: WORDS AND GHOSTS
- 3 A ‘SUBTLE METAMORPHOSIS’: SOUND, MIMESIS AND TRANSFORMATION
- 4 ‘HERE IS WHERE THE MAGIC IS’: TELEPATHY AND EXPERIMENT IN FILM
- 5 ‘DISNEY AGAINST THE METAPHYSICALS’: EISENSTEIN, POUND, ECTOPLASM AND THE POLITICS OF ANIMATION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX