TY - BOOK ID - 80831218 TI - Modernism and magic PY - 2013 SN - 9780748631650 0748631658 9780748627691 0748627693 0748684441 9780748684441 1299105815 9781299105812 PB - Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press DB - UniCat KW - Occultism. KW - Magic. KW - Magick KW - Necromancy KW - Sorcery KW - Spells KW - Occultism KW - Art, Black (Magic) KW - Arts, Black (Magic) KW - Black art (Magic) KW - Black arts (Magic) KW - Occult, The KW - Occult sciences KW - Supernatural KW - New Age movement KW - Parapsychology KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Modernism (Christian theology) KW - Supernatural in motion pictures. KW - Supernatural in literature. KW - Literature, Modern KW - History and criticism. KW - Modernism KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Modernist-fundamentalist controversy KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Literary movements KW - Supernatural in moving-pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80831218 AB - 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. Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications of this relationship in the work of those writers, artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. ER -