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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Ventriloquism Explained written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Houdini Collection (Library of
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020431852
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Ventriloquism Explained: And Juggler's Tricks, Or Legerdemain Exposed: With Remarks On Vulgar Superstitions written by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book offers an in-depth look at the art of ventriloquism and juggling, with valuable insights and tips for anyone looking to master these intriguing skills. Written by the legendary Harry Houdini, this book is an essential addition to any magic or performance library. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Renée Bergland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691235295
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Natural Magic written by Renée Bergland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical—and too dangerous for women. Natural Magic intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin’s work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson’s poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renée Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world. Illuminating and insightful, Natural Magic explores how Dickinson and Darwin refused to accept the separation of art and science. Today, more than ever, we need to reclaim their shared sense of ecological wonder.
Author : Adam Jortner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939593
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Blood from the Sky written by Adam Jortner and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following the Revolution, the supernatural exploded across the American landscape—fabulous reports of healings, exorcisms, magic, and angels crossed the nation. Under First Amendment protections, new sects based on such miracles proliferated. At the same time, Enlightenment philosophers and American founders explicitly denied the possibility of supernatural events, dismissing them as deliberate falsehoods—and, therefore, efforts to suborn the state. Many feared that belief in the supernatural itself was a danger to democracy. In this way, miracles became a political problem and prompted violent responses in the religious communities of Prophetstown, Turtle Creek, and Nauvoo. In Blood from the Sky, Adam Jortner argues that the astonishing breadth and extent of American miracles and supernaturalism following independence derived from Enlightenment ideas about proof and sensory evidence, offering a chance at certain belief in an uncertain religious climate. Jortner breaks new ground in explaining the rise of radical religion in antebellum America, revisiting questions of disenchantment, modernity, and religious belief in a history of astounding events that—as early Americans would have said—needed to be seen to be believed.
Author : Alicia E. Ellis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793631727
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas written by Alicia E. Ellis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring the Female explores language as a cultural document for an intervention into the ways that female alterity is framed in the ancient world. Grillparzer creates a new way of being that is primarily discursive in which the once unintelligible female figure may be known and heard.
Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477315535
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book A Place of Darkness written by Kendall R. Phillips and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An illuminating history . . . it’s clear that the right story can still terrify us; A Place of Darkness is a primer on how the movies learned to do it.” —NPR Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty cinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old-World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since. “[A] fascinating read.” —Sublime Horror
Author : Edward Bever
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271079878
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Magic in the Modern World written by Edward Bever and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an overt embrace of evolving forms such as esotericism and supernaturalism. Taking a two-track approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of the construction of the modern self and its relation to the modern preoccupation with magic. Essays examine how modern “rational” consciousness is generated and maintained and how proponents of both magical and scientific traditions rationalize evidence to fit accepted orthodoxy. This book also describes how people unsatisfied with the norms of modern subjectivity embrace various forms of magic—and the methods these modern practitioners use to legitimate magic in the modern world. A compelling assessment of magic from the early modern period to today, Magic in the Modern World shows how, despite the dominant culture’s emphatic denial of their validity, older forms of magic persist and develop while new forms of magic continue to emerge. In addition to the editors, contributors include Egil Asprem, Erik Davis, Megan Goodwin, Dan Harms, Adam Jortner, and Benedek Láng.
Author : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher : Boston : The Trustees
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 832 pages
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Total Pages : 778 pages
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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
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Total Pages : 870 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division written by New York Public Library. Rare Book Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Author : Katharine Conover Cowles
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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Amherst, Massachusetts, Imprints, 1825-1876 written by Katharine Conover Cowles and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Sabin
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Ghosts: 1762-1820 : Cock Lane, common sense and morality written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edition benefits from full scholarly apparatus, including a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. The set is broadly interdisciplinary and will appeal to those researching Social and Cultural History, History of Science, History of Religion, Literature and History of the Supernatural, as well as Early-Modern, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century History. It includes rare sources not available on ECCO, EBBO or Google Books. It takes a chronologically broad view of the history of the supernatural, from the Reformation to the twentieth century. The new editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original
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Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Extracted from the Catalogues of the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Library of Trinity College (Dublin), the National Library of Scotland, and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Newcastle: Phase 1: 1816-1870. v.15. Fort - Fyv and Indexes for volumes 11-15. v.20. Hor-Hunt, W. R. and Indexes for v. 16-20. v.21. Hunten-Jero. v.22. Jerp-Kief. v.23. Kieg-Lecom. v.24. Lecon-Lorc. v.25. Lord-Maccaul and Indexes for volumes 21-25 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book Tops written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
