The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema.
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing Occult Modernism -- Defining Occult Modernism -- Untangling the Concept of Occult Modernism -- The How and Why of Occultism -- A Typology of Occult Modernism -- Suggestions for Future Research -...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US,
2018
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Ser.
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| Schlagworte: | Religion Religions Secularism Fine arts Religious Studies Occultism in art Occultism in literature Occultism in motion pictures Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing Occult Modernism -- Defining Occult Modernism -- Untangling the Concept of Occult Modernism -- The How and Why of Occultism -- A Typology of Occult Modernism -- Suggestions for Future Research -- Investigations into Occult Modernism -- Chapter 2: A History of Research into Occult Modernist Literature -- First Generation: ca. 1940-1990 -- Second Generation: ca. 1990-2000 -- Third Generation: ca. 2000 to the Present -- Concluding Remarks -- Part I: Artistic Practices -- Chapter 3: Visionary Mimesis and Occult Modernism in Literature and Art Around 1900 -- The Limits of Postmodern Interpretations of Literary Visionary Mimesis -- Maupassant and Meyrink: Realizing the Limits of Perception and the Exploration of 'New Senses' -- Naturalist Clairvoyance as the Basis of August Strindberg's Visionary Mimesis -- Symbolist Visionary Mimesis in the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4: August Strindberg's Art in Modernist and Occult Context -- The Creative Process and the Unconscious Mind -- Photographic Experiments 1: Celestographs and Crystallograms -- Photographic Experiments 2: Photographing the Soul -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5: 'Only Poets and Occultists Believe in Them Just Now': Fairies and the Modernist Crisis of Authorship -- Fairies, Theosophy and Artistic Visions -- Photographing the Invisible and Taking Dictation from the Fairies -- Disenchantment, Fairy Art and the Many Shades of Belief -- Splintering the Authorial Self, from Mallarmé to Yeats -- The Fairy-Abducted Bard: Yeats's Experiments in Authorial Agency -- Concluding Remarks -- Part II: Aesthetics -- Chapter 6: Return from Oblivion: Joséphin Péladan's Literary Esotericism -- Introducing Péladan -- An Early Modernist?. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783319764993 3319764993 9783319764986 3319764985 |