Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination: 30 (Aries, 30) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 9004465995 ISBN 13: 9789004465992

Verlag: Brill Academic Pub, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Tying on case studies from late antiquity to the 21st century, this is the first volume that systematically explores the inter-relationship between fictional narratives about magic and the real-world ritual art of practicing magicians.

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Bernd-Christian Otto is Senior Research Fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the University of Erlangen-Nuremburg. His research focuses on the history of magic, where he combines different methodologies such as conceptual history, discourse analysis, social theory, and ritual studies.
Dirk Johannsen is Professor of Cultural History at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo. His research focuses on narrative cultures, literature and popular religion in the nineteenth century, cognitive approaches, and trolls.

Contributors are Carole M. Cusack, Owen Davies, Ethan Doyle White, Claire Fanger, Kyle Fraser, Marco Frenschkowski, Christian Giudice, Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir, Dirk Johannsen, Ane Ohrvik, Bernd-Christian Otto, Hugh Urban, Justin Woodman, Kateryna Zorya.

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• Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004465995
• ISBN 13: 9789004465992
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 372
• Herausgeber: Otto Bernd-christian, Johannsen Dirk
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar