Phantasmagoria : spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century / Marina Warner.
Phantasmagoria : spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century / Marina Warner.
Phantasmagoria : spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century / Marina Warner.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N110/90
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xviii, 469 p.
Contents
Introduction : the logic of the imaginary -- 1. Living likenesses; death masks -- 2. Anatomies and heroes : Madame Tussaud's -- 3. On the threshold : sleeping beauties -- 4. The breath of life -- 5. Winged spirits and sweet airs -- 6. Clouds of glory -- 7. Fata Morgana; or, castles in the air -- 8....
24. The Rorschach test; or, dirty pictures -- 25. Nice life, an extra's -- 26. Disembodied eyes : the culture of apocalypse -- 27. Our zombies, our selves.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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England
Date Published
2006.
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"Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how pagan, classical, and Christian imagery about ethereal begins is embedded in a logic of the imagination, clothing spirits in the languages of air, clouds, light and shadow...
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Phantasmagoria : spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century / Marina Warner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N110/90
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9780199299942 (alk. paper)
0199299943 (alk. paper)
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110
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991022385099702626
