Phantasmagoria
(Sprache: Englisch)
Explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; traces metaphors that have conveyed the presence of immaterial forces; and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings are embedded in a logic of the imagination, clothing...
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Explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; traces metaphors that have conveyed the presence of immaterial forces; and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings are embedded in a logic of the imagination, clothing spirits in the languages of air, clouds, light and shadow, glass, and ether itself.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Phantasmagoria “
Prologue; Introduction: The Logic of the Imaginary; I. WAX; 1. Living Likenesses, Death Masks; 2. Anatomies and Heroes: Madame Tussaud's; 3. On the Threshold: Sleeping Beauties; II. AIR; 4. The Breath of Life; 5. Winged Spirits and Sweet Airs; III. CLOUDS; 6. Clouds of Glory; 7. Fata Morgana; 8. Very Like a Whale ..; IV. LIGHT; 9. The Eye of the Imagination; 10. Fancy's Images; Insubstantial Pageants; V. SHADOW; 11. Phantasmagoria or, Darkness Visible; 12. The Origin of Painting or, the Corinthian Maid; VI. MIRROR; 13. The Danger in the Mirror: Narcissus; 14. Double Vision; 15. The Camer Steals the Soul; VII. GHOST; 16. 'Stay This Moment': Julia Margaret Cameron and Charles Dodgson; 17. Spectral Rappers, Psychic Photographers; 18. Phantoms to the Test: The Society for Psychical Research; VIII. ETHER; 19. Soul Vibrations or, The Fluidic Invisible; 20. Time Travel and Other Selves; 21. Exotic Visitors, Multiple Lives; 22. Touching the Unknown; IX. ECTOPLASM; 23. Materializing Mediums: The Quest for Ectoplasm; 24. The Rorschach Test, or Dirty Pictures; X. FILM; 25. Nice Life, and Extra's; 26. Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse; 27. Our Zombies, Our Selves; Conclusion
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marina Warner
- 2006, 469 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199299943
- ISBN-13: 9780199299942
Sprache:
Englisch
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Warner's writing has a touch of Jorge Luis Borges's mischievousness. Richard Mabey, Guardian Books of the Year Her dazzling deconstructions of myths and folk tales [are] always touched with a few spells of her own. Richard Mabey, Guardian Books of the Year ...often manages splendidly vivid pictorial evocations ... a bold, imaginative and provocative study, with a range few other writers would dare. Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement The general effect is rather like that of reading through a first-class encyclopedia. Nigel Barley, Times Higher Education Supplement Frighteningly literate and well-informed Roz Kaveney, Time Out Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation Steven Connor, The Independent She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things Steven Connor, The Independent Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and adroad, in our media and machineries of mind. Steven Connor, The Independent As always Warner's scholarship, eclecticism and inventiveness dazzle. Bel Mooney, The Times It is a book of wonders. Hilary Mantel,The Guardian Phantasmagoria is a fascinating history of spirited bodies and haunted machines, but a reminder too of why the metaphors still get under our skin Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph This book's enquiries are wide-ranging, pertinent and up-to- date. All Marina Warner's material is freshly and enticingly presented. The Guardian, Hilary Mantel This book is a powerful statement. Hilary Mantel,The Guardian Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation. Stephen Connor, The Independent A densely layered book Mike Dash, Sunday Telegraph She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things. Stephen Connor, The Independent Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar
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wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and abroad, in our media and machineries of mind. Stephen Connor, The Independent Splendidly vivid pictorial evocations...it is a bold, imaginative and provocative study, with a range few other writers would dare.
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