1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000020552

Autore

Eekhoud, Georges

Titolo

Escal-Vigor / Georges Eekhoud ; présentation Mirande Lucien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Séguier, c1996

ISBN

2-84049-076-5

Descrizione fisica

318 p. ; 15 cm.

Collana

Bibliothèque décadente

Disciplina

843

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Precedentemente pubbl.: Paris : Mercure de France, 1899

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454864003321

Autore

During Simon <1950->

Titolo

Modern enchantments [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural power of secular magic / / Simon During

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-674-03439-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

793.8

Soggetti

Magic tricks - History

Magicians - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-326) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments 1. Magic History: An Introduction 2. Enchantment and Loss: Theorizing Secular Magic 3. Egg-Bag Tricks and Electricity:



The Founding of Modern Commercial Conjuring 4. Magic's Moment: The Illusion Business 5. From Magic to Film 6. Magic and Literature 7. Magic Places: The Lyceum and the Great Room, Spring Gardens 8. Spiritualism and the Birth of Optical Technologies Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, this work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture.