{"product_id":"modernism-and-magic-leigh-wilson-9780748627707","title":"Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilson 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leigh Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0748627707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748627707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Leigh Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126781669631,"sku":"9780748627707","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f72a21b-6ffe-47bf-93e8-3ae5afeae339.jpg?v=1687450131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modernism-and-magic-leigh-wilson-9780748627707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}