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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2021-09-27 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9004466002 |
Tying on case studies from late antiquity to the 21st century, this is the first volume that systematically explores the inter-relationship between fictional narratives about magic and the real-world ritual art of practicing magicians.
| Author | : Bernd-Christian Otto |
| Publisher | : Aries Book |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9789004465992 |
"To what extent were practitioners of magic inspired by fictional accounts of their art? In how far did the daunting narratives surrounding legendary magicians such as Theophilus of Adana, Cyprianus of Antioch, Johann Georg Faust or Agrippa of Nettesheim rely on real-world events or practices? Fourteen original case studies present material from late antiquity to the twenty-first century and explore these questions in a systematic manner. By coining the notion of 'fictional practice', the editors discuss the emergence of novel, imaginative types of magic from the nineteenth century onwards when fiction and practice came to be more and more intertwined or even fully amalgamated. This is the first comparative study that systematically relates fiction and practice in the history of magic"--
| Author | : Leonardo Marcato |
| Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2023-11-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3839461928 |
»Fictional Practices of Spirituality« provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video games and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching practices. It features analyses of spirituality as gameplay facilitator, sacred spaces and architecture in video game geography, religion in video games and spiritual acts and their dramaturgic function in video games, tabletop, or LARP, among other topics. The contributors offer a first-time ever comprehensive overview of play-rites as spiritual incentives and playful spirituality in various medial incarnations.
| Author | : Arthur Jerrold Tieje |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1916 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Hans J. Lind |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2020-04-14 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0429887612 |
Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and unique perspective of fictional discourse. Pursuing an empirical approach, and using examples that range from Victorian literature to the current judicial treatment of rap music, the volume challenges the prevailing fact–fiction dichotomy in legal theory and practice by providing a better understanding of the peculiarities of legal fictionality, while also contributing further material to fictional theory’s endeavor to find a transdisciplinary valid criterion for a definition of fictional discourse. Following the basic presumptions of the early law-as-literature movement, past approaches have mainly focused on textuality and narrativity as the common denominators of law and literature, and have largely ignored the topic of fictionality. This volume provides a much needed analysis of this gap. The book will be of interest to scholars of legal theory, jurisprudence and legal writing, along with literature scholars and students of literature and the humanities.
| Author | : Eli Rozik |
| Publisher | : Apollo Books |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781845194260 |
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the analysis of fictional worlds in a set of fifteen arts, including theatre, opera, figurative ballet, mime, audio drama, figurative drawing/painting, figurative sculpture, strip cartoon, animation, puppet theatre, still photography, photo-novel, silent movie, cinema and TV drama. Due to their extreme differences, the combination of different arts in the description of a single fictional world, and the translation from one medium to another, are considered problematic. While such differences do not concern fictional creativity, which applies the same poetic and rhetoric rules whatever the medium, it is widely accepted that the problem lies in the extreme differences between the mediums of description. In contrast, this study explores their common grounds. These arts are iconic in nature, and if 'iconicity' is re-defined in terms of imprinting images on matter and mediation of language, and as reflecting the common roots of these mediums in a preverbal mode of imagistic thinking, therein is an explanation of their possible combination and translation from one medium to another without impairing the receivers' reading, interpreting and experiencing capacities. Eli Rozik analyses numerous fictional worlds in all these arts, produced during the last 2,500 years of artistic creativity, especially in theatre, art and cinema. This book presupposes that principles underlying the generation of descriptions of fictional worlds by the theatre medium, as proposed in two earlier works (Generating Theatre Meaning and Fictional Thinking), also apply to all the iconic/fictional arts. The text-book format of the volume has been purposefully designed to address the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students, suiting the structure of university courses and providing all necessary information to access the images/artistic works discussed in the volume via the web and Google. This inter-art journey from theatre theory to the arts is compelling reading for all those involved and engaged in artistic creativity.
| Author | : Thomas G. Pavel |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780674299665 |
Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.
| Author | : Vivian Shaw |
| Publisher | : Orbit |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2017-07-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316434612 |
The first book in a delightfully witty fantasy series in which Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, must defend London from both supernatural ailments and a bloodthirsty cult. Greta Helsing inherited her family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although she barely makes ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's been groomed for since childhood. Until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice and her life. Praise for the Dr. Greta Helsing Novels: "An exceptional and delightful debut, in the tradition of Good Omens and A Night in the Lonesome October."―Elizabeth Bear, Hugo-award winning author "Shaw balances an agile mystery with a pitch-perfect, droll narrative and cast of lovable misfit characters. These are not your mother's Dracula or demons."―Shelf Awareness Dr. Greta Helsing Novels Strange Practice Dreadful Company Grave Importance
| Author | : James Ricklef |
| Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9780738702728 |
Let author and Tarot teacher James Ricklef guide you through sample readings for famous characters from history, myth, and fiction. Discover many ways to interpret the cards, read reversed cards, expand on common three-card spreads, construct a good question, and even rephrase less-than-ideal questions. Explore several variations of the basic three-card spread, and learn how to break the Celtic Cross into mini spreads for clearer, more insightful advice. Beginning Tarot students will find in-depth solutions to common stumbling blocks, while advanced readers will delight in the myriad possibilities of three-card spreads and the sample readings for famous characters. COVR Award 1st Runner-Up
| Author | : David Seed |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 1988-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1349087475 |
