Modernism and Magic Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult

Modernism and Magic Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult

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Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth centuryThis study presents a new account of the relation between modernism and occult discourses. While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss...

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1. Verfasser: Wilson, Leigh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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Literary Studies
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) > History and criticism
Occultism in literature
Spiritualism in literature
Theosophy in literature
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Zusammenfassung:Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth centuryThis study presents a new account of the relation between modernism and occult discourses. 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 an attempt to draw on 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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
ISBN:9780748631650
DOI:10.1515/9780748631650

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