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In the Presence of Mystery Modernist Fiction and the Occult / by Howard M. Fraser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraser, Howard M.
- Series:
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 240.
- North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures ; Number 240
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occultism in literature.
- Supernatural in literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Romance-language literature--History and criticism.
- Romance-language literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1992.
- Summary:
- This study is devoted to the manifestations of the occult in modernist Hispanic short fiction, particularly that of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Rubén Darío, and Leopoldo Lugones.According to Howard Fraser, modernist fiction exhibited a coherent, thoroughgoing spiritualist experimentation as an antidote to bourgeois materialism.
- Contents:
- Cover
- IN THE PRESENCE OF MYSTERY: MODERNIST FICTION AND THE OCCULT
- Title
- Copyright
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: MODERNIST FICTION AND THE OCCULT
- CHAPTER 2. SPIRITUALISM AND THE THRALLDOM OF FAIRYTALES
- CHAPTER 3. A COSMOLOGY OF THE OCCULT: PYTHAGOREANISM, THEOSOPHY, AND THE DOCTRINE OF ANIMISM
- CHAPTER 4. A TECHNOLOGY OF THE OCCULT: MAGIC AND ALCHEMY
- CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSIONS
- WORKS CITED
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-133).
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4696-4270-0
- OCLC:
- 1080550638
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