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Fictional Practice
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2021.
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| Colección: | Aries Book Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. 1 The Path of Desire: Tantra in Indian and Orientalist Literature. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (384 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | References -- Chapter 2 The Medieval Anti-Faust: Stories, Rituals, and Self-Representations in the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Exemplary Fictions of Redemption: Proximate Models for a Life Story -- 3 The Medieval Nigromancer: More Exemplary Fictions -- 4 True Lived Nigromancy: Magic as Social Practice -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore -- 1 Icelandic Sources on Magic -- 2 Spells -- 3 The fornaldarsögur -- 4 Conditions for Spells -- Their Expression and Effect -- 5 Conditions for Spells. References -- Chapter 6 Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy -- 1 Classical Theosophy as a Subject of Research -- 2 Madame Blavatsky and Magic -- 3 The Literary Ambivalence of Magic -- 4 'Black magic Destroyed Atlantis': A Veiled Criticism of Nineteenth-Century Technology? -- 5 Madame Blavatsky as a Story-teller -- 6 'Orgies of story-telling': The Genre of Alternative Fantastic World History -- 7 Madame Blavatsky as a Passionate Reader of Imaginative and Supernatural Fiction -- 8 Madame Blavatsky and Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- 8.1 The Secret Masters -- 8.2 Magical Agency. |
| ISBN: | 9789004466005 9004466002 |