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Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy

An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward, in order to construct a suggestive conceptual framework for disrupting our conventional notions about rhetoric and literacy.Offering an overarching, pointed synthesis of the interpenetration of magic, rhetoric, and literacy, William A. Covino draws from theorists ranging from Plato and Cornelius Agrippa to Paulo Freire and Mary Daly, and analyzes the different magics that operate in Renaissance occult philosophy and Romantic literature, as well as in popular indicators of mass literacy such as "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and The National Enquirer.Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy distinguishes two kinds of magic-rhetoric that continue to affect our psychological and cultural life today. Generative magic-rhetoric creates novel possibilities for action, within a broad sympathetic universe of signs and symbols. Arresting magic-rhetoric attempts to induce automatistic behavior, by inculcating rules and maxims that function like magic ritual formulas: JUST SAY NO. In this connection, the literate individual is one who can interrogate arresting language, and generate "counter-spells."

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Utgivningsdatum1994-08-16
Mått150 x 226 x 13 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice
Antal sidor189
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791420843

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Articulate and Inarticulate Power1. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy MagicRhetoricLiteracy2. The Interanimation of Phantasms The History of PhantasyRenaissance Magic Rhetoric in the Light of FaithAgrippa's Occult Philosophy3. Parcels and Palimpsests From Magic to ScienceNatural Language NationalizedMagic and RomanticismDe Quincey's Palimpsest4. Magic Consciousness Burke's MagicAdorno Against OccultismMarcuse's Universe of DiscourseFreire's Magic Consciousness5. Grimoires and Witches Arresting the New AgeThe National EnquirerMagic Nuggets and Tabloid EpistemologyOprah and the WitchesNotes References Index

"William Covino has written a powerful and deeply engaging book. I am quite taken by his ability to make a subject like magic—a topic susceptible to either an unscholarly 'light' treatment or to an unfortunate academic dismissal—accessible to a broad audience and viable to scholars. I also especially admire the range of his concerns and the thoroughness with which he grounds his discussion in theory and history." — George Kalamaras, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne