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Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult

Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult

Wilson, Leigh

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0748627707
ISBN13: 9780748627707
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1 2015
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth century
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.

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