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Book Synopsis A Phantom Enchantment by : Eve Marie Mont
Download or read book A Phantom Enchantment written by Eve Marie Mont and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant, multi-layered conclusion to the Unbound trilogy, Emma Townsend journeys to Paris and discovers her own choices echoed within the labyrinthine love story The Phantom of the Opera. . .
Book Synopsis Enchantment's Odds & Ends by : Ken Evans
Download or read book Enchantment's Odds & Ends written by Ken Evans and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be Enchanted, at one time, meant to be ‘carried away,’ from one’s hum-drum existence, to something or somewhere magical, perhaps even spiritual, at least, always more than merely physically pleasant! Of course, this depended on one’s beliefs in human souls. Take that away, and enchantment would be as mundane as everything else in modern daily life. No Soul means no possibility of Enchantment. Ken Evans.
Book Synopsis American Enchantment by : Michelle Sizemore
Download or read book American Enchantment written by Michelle Sizemore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of "enchantment" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.
Book Synopsis Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by : Nandini Das
Download or read book Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama written by Nandini Das and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
Book Synopsis Modern Enchantments by : Simon During
Download or read book Modern Enchantments written by Simon During and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A history of “secular,” or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture” (Nicholas Daly). Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During’s superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society’s image of itself. Praise for ModernEnchantment “During documents the extent to which magic and magical thinking have pervaded, and continue to pervade, secular life . . . the author examines 19th- and 20th-century theatrical magic and “commercial conjuring” with great sensitivity to the social and cultural context in the Western world. Equally fascinating is the analysis of magic and early film.” —R. Sugarman, Choice “A richly informed, warmly argued addition to the growing number of books in which writers worry at the pervasive blurring of distinctions between act and appearance, organic consciousness and artificial intelligence, imagination and empirical experience, illusion and thought, reality TV and real life, dreams and money.” —Marina Warner, Financial Times “During moves confidently across three centuries of magic (and covers aspects of a few more besides). The sheer wealth of historical detail he provides is impressive, but no less impressive is the subtlety of his argumentation, and the suggestiveness of his claims . . . This extremely significant piece of work will appeal to literary critics, historians, and not least, devotees of magic.” —Nicholas Daly, author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880–1914
Book Synopsis Enchantments of Modernity by : Saurabh Dube
Download or read book Enchantments of Modernity written by Saurabh Dube and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in this edited volume eschew programmatic solutions, focusing instead in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial imperatives and nationalist knowledge, cosmopolitan politics and liberal democracy, and governmental effects and everyday affects. It is in these ways that the volume attempts to unravel the enchantments of modernity, in order to approach anew modernity's constitutive terms, formative limits, and particular possibilities.
Book Synopsis A Touch of Scarlet by : Eve Marie Mont
Download or read book A Touch of Scarlet written by Eve Marie Mont and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling with a failing relationship and her roommate's withdrawnness, Emma finds her return to prep school further complicated by the fact that her life begins to closely echo that of Hester Prynne's in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."
Book Synopsis YOKAI Enchantments by : Margaret L. Carter
Download or read book YOKAI Enchantments written by Margaret L. Carter and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yokai Magic When Val unearths a Japanese scroll and a cat figurine inherited from her grandfather, magic invades her world. The statuette, actually a cat spirit named Yuki—a yokai—enchanted into that form for her own protection, comes to life. With her old high-school boyfriend, she searches for a way to vanquish the threat from the spirit realm, while facing the attraction they thought they'd long since put behind them. Kitsune Enchantment On the verge of losing her job, Shannon leaps at the chance to sell her graphic novel series to a major publisher. She'd love to have a closer relationship with her artist collaborator, Ryo, but how can she count on a man who keeps disappearing with the flimsiest of excuses? Ryo feels the same attraction to Shannon, but he isn't sure how she'd react to the truth. He's a kitsune—a fox shapeshifter—prone to transforming at awkward moments. When a wannabe wizard follows him to a science-fiction convention, Ryo's secret, liberty, and budding romance with Shannon are all threatened. Kappa Companion Two years after her husband's sudden death, Heidi hopes to make a fresh start with a new love and a new home. But she hasn't planned on sharing her century-old house with her son's not-so-imaginary friends—a ghost child and a Japanese water monster. At least the creatures aren't dangerous—or are they?
Book Synopsis The Phantom's Apprentice by : Heather Webb
Download or read book The Phantom's Apprentice written by Heather Webb and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine faces an impossible choice: be a star at the Paris opera, or follow her dream-to become a master of illusions. First, she must steal the secrets of the enigmatic master who haunts her, survive a world of treachery and murder, and embrace the uncertain promise of love. To succeed, she will risk her life in the grandest illusion of all.
Book Synopsis Art and Enchantment by : Patrick Curry
Download or read book Art and Enchantment written by Patrick Curry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic experience and activity, including painting, music, fiction and poetry, before exploring the possibility of a life oriented to enchantment as the activity of art itself. With attention to the complex relationship between wonder in art and the programmatic disenchantment to which it is often subject, the author draws on the thought of a diverse range of philosophers, sociological theorists and artists, to offer an understanding of art through the idea of enchantment, and enchantment through art. An accessible study, richly illustrated with experience – both that of the author and others – Art and Enchantment will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and anyone with interests in the nature of aesthetic experience.
Book Synopsis A Breath of Eyre by : Eve Marie Mont
Download or read book A Breath of Eyre written by Eve Marie Mont and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning, imaginative novel, Eve Marie Mont transports her modern-day heroine into the life of Jane Eyre to create a mesmerizing story of love, longing, and finding your place in the world. . . Emma Townsend has always believed in stories--the ones she reads voraciously, and the ones she creates. Perhaps it's because she feels like an outsider at her exclusive prep school, or because her stepmother doesn't come close to filling the void left by her mother's death. And her only romantic prospect--apart from a crush on her English teacher--is Gray Newman, a long-time friend who just adds to Emma's confusion. But escape soon arrives in an old leather-bound copy of Jane Eyre. . . Reading of Jane's isolation sparks a deep sense of kinship. Then fate takes things a leap further when a lightning storm catapults Emma right into Jane's body and her nineteenth-century world. As governess at Thornfield, Emma has a sense of belonging she's never known--and an attraction to the brooding Mr. Rochester. Now, moving between her two realities and uncovering secrets in both, Emma must decide whether her destiny lies in the pages of Jane's story, or in the unwritten chapters of her own. . . "Captivating and heartrending. . . Definitely one for the favorites shelf."--Kelly Creagh, author of Nevermore "A rich, wonderful, smart adventure, steeped in romance. I fell into this book in the same way Emma falls into Jane Eyre and I didn't want to fall back out again." --Lesley Livingston, author of Once Every Never and the Wondrous Strange trilogy Eve Marie Mont lives with her husband, Ken, and her shelter dog, Maggie, in suburban Philadelphia, where she teaches high school English and creative writing. Her debut women's fiction novel, Free to a Good Home, was published by Berkley Books in 2010.
Book Synopsis Book of Enchantments by : Patricia C. Wrede
Download or read book Book of Enchantments written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten short stories include the tale of Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom, a yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts, and a story about an enchanted wizard's daughter.
Book Synopsis A Study of the Magic Elements in the Romans D'aventure and the Romans Bretons ... by : De La Warr Benjamin Easter
Download or read book A Study of the Magic Elements in the Romans D'aventure and the Romans Bretons ... written by De La Warr Benjamin Easter and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide to Minecraft Dungeons by : Mojang AB
Download or read book Guide to Minecraft Dungeons written by Mojang AB and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang, this is the definitive guide to Minecraft Dungeons. It is a dark and dangerous time. Corrupted by the Orb of Dominance, the evil Arch-Illager has gathered a loyal following of Illagers. Together they have ravaged the land, enslaving the peaceful Villagers and forcing them to do their bidding. The Villagers are in desperate need of a hero, and you are their only hope. Within the pages of this valuable book, you will find strategies for fighting malicious mobs, observations about the perils of each dungeon and advice about how to get your hands on rare and powerful items. You will also learn how to work as part of a team to vanquish the Arch-Illager once and for all. The fate of us all lies in your hands, brave hero. The Arch-Illager’s reign of terror ends now.
Book Synopsis The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend by : Gareth Knight
Download or read book The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend written by Gareth Knight and published by Skylight Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1983.
Book Synopsis Ghost Husband, Where To Go by : Tong JiaDaShaoYe
Download or read book Ghost Husband, Where To Go written by Tong JiaDaShaoYe and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Pluto had mysteriously fallen. The direct son of Pluto, Yan Ming, possessed the orthodox bloodline of Pluto, but was trapped in the Nine Hells Abyss by his younger brother. What they didn't know was that Xiao Zhu, who had the innate Netherworld Ghost Body, had the good fortune to obtain the Obsidian Stone, and Yan Ming, who was hiding in the Obsidian Stone, was her chosen one ...
Book Synopsis Flash of Fantasy - 50 Magical Adventures by : Priscilla Rogers
Download or read book Flash of Fantasy - 50 Magical Adventures written by Priscilla Rogers and published by Priscilla Rogers. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an extraordinary journey into the realms of magic, wonder, and imagination with "Flash of Fantasy: 50 Magical Adventures." This enchanting collection of short stories will transport you to a world where the ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary and the mundane becomes the stuff of legend. Within the pages of this book, you'll discover 50 captivating tales, each a unique portal to a realm of fantasy. From mystical forests where ancient trees whisper secrets to far-off galaxies where sorcery meets science, these stories span the full spectrum of the fantasy genre. Dive into the adventures of intrepid heroes, encounter mythical creatures, and explore landscapes teeming with enchantment. With stories that range from heartwarming and humorous to thrilling and thought-provoking, "Flash of Fantasy" offers something for every fantasy enthusiast. Whether you're a lifelong fan of the genre or new to the world of magic and wonder, these tales will spark your imagination and kindle your sense of adventure. With every page turned, you'll be transported to worlds where anything is possible, and where the only limit is the boundless creativity of the authors. "Flash of Fantasy" is the perfect companion for a quiet evening by the fire, a rainy day escape, or a journey into the unknown. These short stories are designed to be savored in small doses or devoured all at once—whichever you prefer. As you delve into each story, you'll experience the power of imagination, the allure of the unknown, and the wonder of the fantastic. Join us on this remarkable adventure, and let "Flash of Fantasy: 50 Magical Adventures" ignite your sense of wonder and rekindle your love for the extraordinary. It's a literary treasure trove where the next captivating tale is just a page away.
