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Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult /
Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth century. While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of mod...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; 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.