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Modern enchantments : the cultural power of secular magic /

"Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How do the arts of illusion and enterta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: During, Simon, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Magic History: An Introduction
  • 2. Enchantment and Loss: Theorizing Secular Magic
  • 3. Egg-Bag Tricks and Electricity: The Founding of Modern Commercial Conjuring
  • 4. Magic's Moment: The Illusion Business
  • 5. From Magic to Film
  • 6. Magic and Literature
  • 7. Magic Places: The Lyceum and the Great Room, Spring Gardens
  • 8. Spiritualism and the Birth of Optical Technologies.