Modern Enchantments

Modern Enchantments
Author: Simon During
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674013711

Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?

Neo-Victorianism

Neo-Victorianism
Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230281699

This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century.

Haunted Media

Haunted Media
Author: Jeffrey Sconce
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780822325727

Examines the repeated association of new electronic media with spiritual phenomena from the telegraph in the late 19th century to television.

Source Problems in English History;

Source Problems in English History;
Author: Wallace Notestein
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781020761904

This book is an essential resource for anyone studying English history. It provides a collection of primary source documents and problems to promote critical thinking and analysis. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

We'll to the Woods No More

We'll to the Woods No More
Author: Edouard Dujardin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811211130

A delightful period piece of Paris in the late 1880's, We'll to the Woods No More (Les lauriers sont coupés) retains its importance as the first use of the monologue intérieur and the inspiration for the stream-of-consciousness technique perfected by James Joyce. Dujardin's charming tale, told with insight and irony, recounts what goes on in the mind of a young man-about-town in love with a Parisian actress. Mallarmé described the poetry of the telling as "the instant seized by the throat." Originally published in France in 1887, the first English translation (by Joyce scholar Stuart Gilbert) was published by New Directions in 1938. In 1957 Leon Edel's perceptive historical essay reintroduced the book as "the rare and beautiful case of a minor work which launched a major movement."

Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography

Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Author: Albert A. Hopkins
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography" by Albert A. Hopkins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.