Can I read The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature : Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World on EtoBox?

The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature : Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World by Allan Kilner-Johnson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature : Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World about?

"Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult. Although the early decades of the twentieth century--the era of cocktails, motorcars, bobbed hair, and war--are often described as a period of newness and innovation, many writers of the time found inspiration and visionary brilliance by turning to the mysterious occult past. This book's principle intervention is to reimagine the contours and boundaries of literary modernism by welcoming into the conversation a number of significant female writers and writers in languages other than English who are often still relegated to the fringes of modernist studies. Well-remembered poets and novelists such as Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Aleister Crowley were tied to occult beliefs, and this book sets these leading figures alongside less well-remembered but equally splendid modernists including Paul Br

Who reads The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature : Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World?

Author

Allan Kilner-Johnson

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350255302

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Philosophy