[PDF] Visions Of Enchantment eBook

Author : Daniel Zamani
Publisher : Fulgur Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527228825

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Since Antiquity, the idea of the artist as a magician, trickster and powerful creator of new realities has established itself as a fertile idea in the discussion of image-making. The conjuring of illusions, the inherent link between the material and the spiritual and the wish to make the invisible visible are all part of this wider discourse. Visions of Enchantment looks at the fascinating intersections between esotericism and visual culture through a decidedly cross-cultural lens, with topics ranging from talismanic magic and the Renaissance exploration of alchemy, through to the role of magic in modern art and 20th century experimental film.00The essays offered in 'Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture' have been selected from papers presented at a major international conference at the University of Cambridge in 2014. It includes work by some of the leading scholars in Western Esotericism including Antoine Faivre, M.E. Warlick and Deanna Petherbridge. It attests to the vibrant role that magic and the occult play in cutting-edge research across a wide variety of the arts and humanities today.

Author : Hugh Parry
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Himself primarily a classicist, Parry offers 10 essays introducing magical themes and variations in literary fiction, both to begin what he sees as a neglected endeavor, and to encourage lay and specialist readers to turn or return to some of the works he considers. He focuses almost exclusively on western literature and a select scattering of ancient and modern texts. c. Book News Inc.

Author : David L. Martin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262016060

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Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345484509

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In Enchantment, Orson Scott Card works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty into an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure. The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred and sent the ten-year-old Ivan scrambling for the safety of Cousin Marek's farm. Now, years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he cannot forget that long-ago day in the forest—or convince himself it was merely a frightened boy’s fantasy. Compelled to return to his native land, Ivan finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run. This time he awakens the beauty with a kiss . . . and steps into a world that vanished a thousand years ago. A rich tapestry of clashing worlds and cultures, Enchantment is a powerfully original novel of a love and destiny that transcend centuries . . . and the dark force that stalks them across the ages.

Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780231140904

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"This book examines some figures of seduction as they have appeared over the course of opera's history." --introd.

Author : Mary Dressel
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781424152032

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Uriah Prescot, the handsome hero, came through the confines of time to wait for his sweet Eryn. It was a fateful foggy night that led her back to him. Back to a town she didnat remember. Back to a time and a man she had only seen in visionsa]visions of enchantment. When they meet, Uriah loves her as much as he did on the day she left him twenty years ago, twenty years plus a century! Eryn Sterling didnat even know he existed. In a little log cabin, with the beautiful Allegheny Mountains as a backdrop, Uriah tries to convince her that she loved him a century ago. Does he try a little too hard sometimes? Will his persistence drive her away as she tries to come to terms with the truth? Or will she discover he is the only love that can ever be, her forever love?

Author : William DeBuys
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826308207

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This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.

Author : Eugene McCarraher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674242777

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“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century