Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century | 
 enlarge | Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Pages: 496
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0199239231
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780199239238
ASIN: 0199239231
Publication Date: May 30, 2008
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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.
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