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Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria

285 kr.

285 kr.

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Tors., 20 mar. - ons., 26 mar.


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Produktbeskrivelse

Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings is embedded in a logic of the imagination, clothing spirits in the languages of air, clouds, light and shadow, glass, and ether itself. Moving from Wax to Film, the book discusses key questions of imagination and cognition, and probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception; it uncovers a host of spirit forms -- angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies -- that are still actively present in contemporary culture. It reveals how their transformations over time illuminate changing idea about the self. Phantasmagoria also tells the accompanying story about the means used to communicate such ideas, and relates how the new technologies of the Victorian era were applied to figuring the invisible and the impalpable, and how magic lanterns (the phantasmagoria shows themselves), radio, photography and then moving pictures spread ideas about spirit forces. As the story unfolds, the book features many eminent scientists and philosophers who applied their considerable energies to the question of other worlds and other states of mind: they staged trance séances in which mediums produced spirit phenomena, including ectoplasm. Phantasmagoria shows how this often surprising story connects with some of the important scientific discoveries of a fertile age, in psychology and physics, and continues to influence contemporary experience.

Varenr.

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Funktioner

Antal sider

496 Sider

Foreslået køn

Ethvert køn

Skrevet af

Marina Warner

Udgiver

Oxford University Press

Udgivelsesdato

13/03/2008

International standard bookingnummer (ISBN)

9780199239238

Mindste ordremængde

1 stk

Phantasmagoria

285 kr.

285 kr.

På lager

Tors., 20 mar. - ons., 26 mar.


Sikker betaling

14 dages åbent køb


Sælges og leveres af

Adlibris