The Resource Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult, Leigh Wilson
Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult, Leigh Wilson
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The item Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult, Leigh Wilson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
- Contents
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- 'But the facts of life persist': Magic, experiment and the problem of representing the world otherwise
- 'And what has all this to do with experimental writing?': Words and ghosts
- A 'subtle metamorphosis': Sound, mimesis and transformation
- 'Here is where the magic is': Telepathy and experiment in film
- 'Disney against the metaphysicals': Eisenstein, pound, ectoplasm and the politics of animation
- Isbn
- 9780748631650
- Label
- Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult
- Title
- Modernism and magic
- Title remainder
- experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult
- Statement of responsibility
- Leigh Wilson
- Title variation
- Modernism & Magic
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wilson, Leigh
- Dewey number
- 809/.9337
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN56.M54
- LC item number
- W55 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Christian theology)
- Supernatural in motion pictures
- Supernatural in literature
- Literature, Modern
- Label
- Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult, Leigh Wilson
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 'But the facts of life persist': Magic, experiment and the problem of representing the world otherwise -- 'And what has all this to do with experimental writing?': Words and ghosts -- A 'subtle metamorphosis': Sound, mimesis and transformation -- 'Here is where the magic is': Telepathy and experiment in film -- 'Disney against the metaphysicals': Eisenstein, pound, ectoplasm and the politics of animation
- Control code
- CR9780748631650
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780748631650
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult, Leigh Wilson
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 'But the facts of life persist': Magic, experiment and the problem of representing the world otherwise -- 'And what has all this to do with experimental writing?': Words and ghosts -- A 'subtle metamorphosis': Sound, mimesis and transformation -- 'Here is where the magic is': Telepathy and experiment in film -- 'Disney against the metaphysicals': Eisenstein, pound, ectoplasm and the politics of animation
- Control code
- CR9780748631650
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780748631650
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
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