The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World Kilner-Johnson Allan
The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World Kilner-Johnson Allan Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several…
Specifikacia The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World Kilner-Johnson Allan
The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World Kilner-Johnson Allan
Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult.Although the early decades of the twentieth century-the era of cocktails, motorcars, bobbed hair, and war-are often described as a period of newness and innovation, many writers of the time found inspiration and visionary brilliance by turning to the mysterious occult past. This book's principle intervention is to reimagine the contours and boundaries of literary modernism by welcoming into the conversation a number of significant female writers and writers in languages other than English