Modernism and Magic : Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult
by
Leigh Wilson
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
ISBN-10
0748627693
ISBN-13
9780748627691
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 14th, 2012
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
442 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 16.30 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismLiterary studies: general
Ksh 18,000.00
Re-Printing
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
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 modernity, or as a hidden history of ideas, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses have at their heart a magical practice which remakes the relationship between world and representation. As Wilson demonstrates, the courses of the occult are based on a magical mimesis which transforms the nature of the copy, from inert to vital, from dead to alive, from static to animated, from powerless to powerful.
Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications of this relationship in the work of those writers, artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications of this relationship in the work of those writers, artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Get Modernism and Magic by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Edinburgh University Press and it has pages.
