Marina Warner (Writer and Critic, Universi Professor of Literature

Phantasmagoria

Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9780199239238
• ISBN-10: 0199239231
• Artikelnr.: 23282441

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

Rigorous research, dazzling cross-disciplinary leaps ... her passion seeps right through to the last page. Observer Review.