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SKU:JU030BK1C9RYCNAFAMZ
Model:9780748627691
Author:Wilson

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  • Hardback - Number of Pages: 224 pages
  • Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 20mm - 458.13g
  • Publication date: 31 Dec 2012
  • Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Publication City/Country: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Language: English

Across Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the 'unseen' returned in very particular ways: in a resurgence of interest in mysticism of all kinds, in the pursuit of occult knowledge and practices, and in the investigation of psychic phenomenon. While a number of scholars have described links between modernism and aspects of spiritualism, the occult, and mysticism, their discussions have left unanswered the question of what place the unseen world as a whole occupies. By looking at the occult, spiritualism and mysticism in one frame, this book argues that the unseen figures modernism's yearning for that which is beyond the materiality of the text, whether that 'text' be printed words on a page, paint on canvas, or the effects of light fixed on a screen. The birth of modernism resides not so much in notions of aesthetic autonomy, resisting the degradations of mass culture, but in an attempt to reclaim textuality as a magical practice. This book provides the first overview of this broad subject, aimed at advanced level students and res...

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