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Zusatztext Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and abroad, in our media and machineries of mind. Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture. Zusammenfassung Marina Warner's study of the products of fantasy deepens our understanding of the supernatural in relation to self and society. This surprising story explores the metaphors and media that have been the stock in trade of poets, scientists, magicians, and visionaries, including wax and cloud, smoke and mirrors, ether, ectoplasm, and celluloid. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Introduction: The Logic of the Imaginary I. Wax 1: Living Likenesses, Death Masks 2: Anatomies and Heroes: Madame Tussaud's 3: On the Threshold: Sleeping Beauties II. Air 4: The Breath of Life 5: Winged Spirits and Sweet Airs III. Clouds 6: Clouds of Glory 7: Fata Morgana 8: Very Like a Whale . . . IV. Light 9: The Eye of the Imagination 10: Fancy's Images; Insubstantial Pageants V. Shadow 11: Phantasmagoria or, Darkness Visible 12: The Origin of Painting or, the Corinthian Maid VI. Mirror 13: The Danger in the Mirror: Narcissus 14: Double Vision 15: The Camera Steals the Soul VII. Ghost 16: 'Stay This Moment': Julia Margaret Cameron and Charles Dodgson 17: Spectral Rappers, Psychic Photographers 18: Phantoms to the Test: The Society for Psychical Research VIII. Ether 19: Soul Vibrations or, The Fluidic Invisible 20: Time Travel and Other Selves 21: Exotic Visitors, Multiple Lives 22: Touching the Unknown IX. Ectoplasm 23: Materializing Mediums: The Quest for Ectoplasm 24: The Rorschach Test, or Dirty Pictures X. Film 25: Nice Life, an Extra's 26: Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse 27: Our Zombies, Our Selves Conclusion ...
List of contents
- Prologue
- Introduction: The Logic of the Imaginary
- I. Wax
- 1: Living Likenesses, Death Masks
- 2: Anatomies and Heroes: Madame Tussaud's
- 3: On the Threshold: Sleeping Beauties
- II. Air
- 4: The Breath of Life
- 5: Winged Spirits and Sweet Airs
- III. Clouds
- 6: Clouds of Glory
- 7: Fata Morgana
- 8: Very Like a Whale . . .
- IV. Light
- 9: The Eye of the Imagination
- 10: Fancy's Images; Insubstantial Pageants
- V. Shadow
- 11: Phantasmagoria or, Darkness Visible
- 12: The Origin of Painting or, the Corinthian Maid
- VI. Mirror
- 13: The Danger in the Mirror: Narcissus
- 14: Double Vision
- 15: The Camera Steals the Soul
- VII. Ghost
- 16: 'Stay This Moment': Julia Margaret Cameron and Charles Dodgson
- 17: Spectral Rappers, Psychic Photographers
- 18: Phantoms to the Test: The Society for Psychical Research
- VIII. Ether
- 19: Soul Vibrations or, The Fluidic Invisible
- 20: Time Travel and Other Selves
- 21: Exotic Visitors, Multiple Lives
- 22: Touching the Unknown
- IX. Ectoplasm
- 23: Materializing Mediums: The Quest for Ectoplasm
- 24: The Rorschach Test, or Dirty Pictures
- X. Film
- 25: Nice Life, an Extra's
- 26: Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse
- 27: Our Zombies, Our Selves
- Conclusion
About the author
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.
