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 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923923-8
- EAN: 9780199239238
- Produktnummer: 17613745
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.7 cm 762 g
- Abbildungen: 8pp color plates, numerous halftones
- Gewicht: 762
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
Marina Warner has written extensively on mythology and fairy tales. Her novels and works of criticism have won her the Fawcett Prize, a Booker Prize nomination, the Rosemary Crawshay Prize, and a Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Internationally she has been created Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French, Commendatore by the Italians, and was awarded the Warburg Prize in Germany. In addition to being Professor of Literature at the University of Essex,she is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at St Andrews University. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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