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Author : Leigh Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0748672338
Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth century
Author : Birgit Meyer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780804744645
This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also at home in modernity.
Author : Simon During
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674013711
Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?
Author : Patrick Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738706634
Fresh ideas for the modern mage lie at the heart of this thought-provoking guide to magic theory. Approaching magical practice from an information paradigm, Patrick Dunn provides a unique and contemporary perspective on an ancient practice. Imagination, psychology, and authority-the most basic techniques of magic-are introduced first. From there, Dunn teaches all about symbol systems, magical artifacts, sigils, spirits, elementals, languages, and magical journeys, and explains their significance in magical practice. There are also exercises for developing magic skills, along with techniques for creating talismans, glamours, servitors, divination decks, modern defixios, and your own astral temple. Dunn also offers tips on aura detection, divination, occult networking, and conducting your own magic research.
Author : Rachel O. Moore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822323884
An ambitious and original work which uses early film theory, anthropological insights, and avant--garde film to explore the relation of cinema to ritual healing.
Author : John Bramble
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1137465786
This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.
Author : Gordon Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199265968
This is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Relating themes in the history of European philosophy to topics in contemporary philosophy, Gordon Graham investigates the idea that art has the potential to re-enchant an irreligious world.
Author : Sara Danius
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 150172116X
In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's Ulysses as narratives of the sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of technological reproduction. In her discussion of the years from 1880 to 1930, Danius proposes that the high-modernist aesthetic is inseparable from a technologically mediated crisis of the senses. She reveals the ways in which categories of perceiving and knowing are realigned when technological devices are capable of reproducing sense data. Sparked by innovations such as chronophotography, phonography, radiography, cinematography, and technologies of speed, this sudden shift in perceptual abilities had an effect on all arts of the time.Danius explores how perception, notably sight and hearing, is staged in the three most significant modern novels in German, French, and British literature. The Senses of Modernism connects technological change and formal innovation to transform the study of modernist aesthetics. Danius questions the longstanding acceptance of a binary relationship between high and low culture and describes the complicated relationship between modernism and technology, challenging the conceptual divide between a technological culture and a more properly aesthetic one.
Author : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 022640336X
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines’ founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521483926
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.