Phantasmagoria spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century

With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shif...

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Hovedforfatter: Warner, Marina
Andre forfattere: Marina Warner
Sprog:Undetermined
English
Udgivet: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2008
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Summary:With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture
Fysisk beskrivelse:xviii, 469 p.
ill. (some col.)
24 cm
ISBN:0199239231
9780199239238