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

Name: Modernism and Magic
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9780748627707
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ISBN: 9780748627707

by Leigh Wilson

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

ISBN-10 0748627707

ISBN-13 9780748627707

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 1st, 2015

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 336 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 15.80 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general Theosophy & Anthroposophy Spiritualism Occult studies Theosophy and Anthroposophy Spiritualism Occult studies / Supernatural studies

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Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications of the relationship between magic and mimesis in the work of writers, artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei M. Eisenstein.

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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