Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674725859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Bookforum Stranger Magic is a large volume, and it can sometimes be difficult not to get disoriented However, one of the merits of the book is that it teaches us why getting lost now and again can be salutary Stranger Magic reveals that the fate of the human spirit hangs not by a single thread, but by an extravagant skein of fancy. —George Prochnik
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. The "Nights" seized European readers' imaginations during the siecle des Lumieres, inspiring imitations, spoofs, turqueries, extravaganzas, pantomimes, and mauresque tastes in dress and furniture. The magical tradition, so long disavowed by Western rationality, underlies modernity's most characteristic developments, including the charmed states of brand-name luxury goods, paper money, and psychoanalytic dream interpretation. In Warner's hands, the "Nights" reveal the underappreciated cultural exchanges between East and West, Islam and Christianity, and cast light on the magical underpinnings of contemporary experience, where mythical princi
luisamillera said An interesting study but marred at times with poor writing. This is an interesting and at times frustrating study of how tales from the Arabian Nights made their way into European cultural and intellectual thought in a period largely confined to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Warner's enthusiasm for tracing the cultural effects produced by stories steeped . schlmiel #The Deep Sanity of Imagination I want to believe that Warner is one of the geniuses of the Counter-enlightenment, that she is at once an artist and an intellectual who sees through the veneer of rationality that both hides the dominance of Enlightenment brutality and coldness and even more deeply conceals and distorts the deeper magic i. "The Deep Sanity of Imagination" according to schlmiel #The Deep Sanity of Imagination I want to believe that Warner is one of the geniuses of the Counter-enlightenment, that she is at once an artist and an intellectual who sees through the veneer of rationality that both hides the dominance of Enlightenment brutality and coldness and even more deeply conceals and distorts the deeper magic i. 2. I want to believe that Warner is one of the geniuses of the Counter-enlightenment, that she is at once an artist and an intellectual who sees through the veneer of rationality that both hides the dominance of Enlightenment brutality and coldness and even more deeply conceals and distorts the deeper magic i. said The Deep Sanity of Imagination. I want to believe that Warner is one of the geniuses of the Counter-enlightenment, that she is at once an artist and an intellectual who sees through the veneer of rationality that both hides the dominance of Enlightenment brutality and coldness and even more deeply conceals and distorts the deeper magic i. Fascinating Book Marina Warner is a wonderful, imaginative author. If you are interested in this topic, check it out, and even if you're not, you'll be surprised!
Marina Warner is Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a distinguished writer of fiction, criticism, and history.