Marina Warner's study of the products of fantasy deepens our understanding of the supernatural in relation to self and society. This surprising story explores the metaphors and media that have been the stock in trade of poets, scientists, magicians, and visionaries, including wax and cloud, smoke and mirrors, ether, ectoplasm, and celluloid.
Marina Warner's study of the products of fantasy deepens our understanding of the supernatural in relation to self and society. This surprising story explores the metaphors and media that have been the stock in trade of poets, scientists, magicians, and visionaries, including wax and cloud, smoke and mirrors, ether, ectoplasm, and celluloid.
Marina Warner has written extensively on mythology and fairy tales. Her novels and works of criticism have won her the Fawcett Prize, a Booker Prize nomination, the Rosemary Crawshay Prize, and a Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Internationally she has been created Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French, Commendatore by the Italians, and was awarded the Warburg Prize in Germany. In addition to being Professor of Literature at the University of Essex, she is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at St Andrews University. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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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 Camera 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, an Extra's 26: Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse 27: Our Zombies, Our Selves Conclusion
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 Camera 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, an Extra's 26: Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse 27: Our Zombies, Our Selves Conclusion
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Rigorous research, dazzling cross-disciplinary leaps ... her passion seeps right through to the last page. Observer Review.
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