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Détails
Genre/forme: | History |
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Type d’ouvrage: | Ressource Internet |
Type de document: | Livre, Ressource Internet |
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs: |
Marina Warner |
ISBN: | 9780199239238 0199239231 |
Numéro OCLC: | 180753636 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2006. |
Description: | xviii, 469 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contenu: | I. WAX; II. AIR; III. CLOUDS; IV. LIGHT; V. SHADOW; VI. MIRROR; VII. GHOST; VIII. ETHER; IX. ECTOPLASM; X. FILM |
Responsabilité: | Marina Warner. |
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Critiques
Synopsis de l’éditeur
Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and abroad, in our media and machineries of mind. * Stephen Connor, The Independent * She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things. * Stephen Connor, The Independent * A densely layered book * Mike Dash, Sunday Telegraph * Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation. * Stephen Connor, The Independent * This book is a powerful statement. * Hilary Mantel,The Guardian * This book's enquiries are wide-ranging, pertinent and up-to- date. All Marina Warner's material is freshly and enticingly presented. * The Guardian, Hilary Mantel * Phantasmagoria is a fascinating history of spirited bodies and haunted machines, but a reminder too of why the metaphors still get under our skin * Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph * It is a book of wonders. * Hilary Mantel,The Guardian * As always Warner's scholarship, eclecticism and inventiveness dazzle. * Bel Mooney, The Times * Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and adroad, in our media and machineries of mind. * Steven Connor, The Independent * She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things * Steven Connor, The Independent * Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation * Steven Connor, The Independent * Frighteningly literate and well-informed * Roz Kaveney, Time Out * The general effect is rather like that of reading through a first-class encyclopedia. * Nigel Barley, Times Higher Education Supplement * Review from previous edition ...often manages splendidly vivid pictorial evocations ... a bold, imaginative and provocative study, with a range few other writers would dare. * Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement * The sprawl of Warner's thesis is slightly overwhelming but her passion seeps right through to the last page. * Observer. * Rigorous research, dazzling cross-disciplinary leaps ... her passion seeps right through to the last page. * Observer Review. * Lire la suite...

