Modernism and Magic : Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult

Name: Modernism and Magic
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9780748627691
Price: 18000 KES
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ISBN: 9780748627691

by Leigh Wilson

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Format Hardback

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 & criticism Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: general

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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.

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