Modernism and Magic

Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Av Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster) Wilson, Leigh (Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies

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Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth centuryWhile 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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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-01
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt332 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748627707

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Leigh Wilson is Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on modernism, on the place of supernatural and occult beliefs and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the contemporary British novel. She is the author of Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult (EUP, 2013).

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: ‘But the facts of life persist’: Magic, Experiment and the Problem of Representing the World Otherwise; Chapter 2: ‘And what has all this to do with experimental writing?’: Words and Ghosts; Chapter 3: A ‘subtle metamorphosis’: Sound, Mimesis and Transformation; Chapter 4: ‘Here is where the magic is’: Telepathy and Experiment in Film; Chapter 5: ‘Disney against the metaphysicals’: Eisenstein, Pound, Ectoplasm and the Politics of Animation; Bibliography; Index.