| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Aries book series,
1871-1405 ;
30
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Aries book series ; v.30.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"To what extent were practitioners of magic inspired by fictional accounts of their art? In how far did the daunting narratives surrounding legendary magicians such as Theophilus of Adana, Cyprianus of Antioch, Johann Georg Faust or Agrippa of Nettesheim rely on real-world events or practices? Fourteen original case studies present material from late antiquity to the twenty-first century and explore these questions in a systematic manner. By coining the notion of 'fictional practice', the editors discuss the emergence of novel, imaginative types of magic from the nineteenth century onwards when fiction and practice came to be more and more intertwined or even fully amalgamated. This is the first comparative study that systematically relates fiction and practice in the history of magic"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Magic as Pollution: Fictional Blasphemies and Ritual Realities in the Roman Period (1st cen. bce-4th cen. ce) -- Chapter 2 The Medieval Anti-Faust: Stories, Rituals, and Self-Representations in the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching -- Chapter 3 Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore -- Chapter 4 Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires -- Chapter 5 When Ritual Texts Become Legendary: Practice and Fiction in Nordic Folklore -- Chapter 6 Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy -- Chapter 7 The Emergence of Fictional Practice in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: W.B. Yeats' Talismanic Poetry -- Chapter 8 "My Life in a Love Cult": Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction -- Chapter 9 Drawing Down the Moon: From Classical Greece to Modern Wicca? -- Chapter 10 Drinking from Hecate's Fountain: Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogies and the Fusion Between Literature and Practiced Magic -- Chapter 11 If One Knows Where to Look, Fiction is Magic: Reading Fictional Texts as Manuals of Magic in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus -- Chapter 12 "Cthulhu Gnosis": Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice -- Chapter 13 A Magickal School in the Twenty-First Century: The Grey School of Wizardry and Its Prehistory -- Chapter 14 Fictional Practice from Antiquity to Today -- Person Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Magic -- History.
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Magic in literature -- History.
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Literature and morals.
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Magic -- Case studies.
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Literature and morals |
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Magic |
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Magic in literature |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Added Author |
Otto, Bernd-Christian, editor.
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Johannsen, Dirk, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fictional practice Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021 9789004465992 (DLC) 2021031638 |
| ISBN |
9004466002 electronic book |
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9789004466005 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004465992 hardcover |
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