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Katharina Rein's award-winning dissertation in cultural studies is devoted to stage magic in the period from 1860 to 1910 characterized by scientific and technical innovation as well as by a flourishing media culture, the upheavals of industrialization, and the experiences of globalization and colonialism. Modern stage magic does not claim any supernatural effect, but rather presents technically generated illusions, whose modes of operation, however, it conceals. It thus represents a specific form of media use that excessively exhibits media effects while making the technical events behind them disappear. The analysis of four paradigmatic large-scale illusions (»Pepper's Ghost«, »The Vanishing Lady«, levitation and telepathy illusions) opens up glimpses into the hitherto largely unwritten history of magic in the late 19th century. At the same time, this opens up the view of drastic cultural changes and innovations that found their way into this modern, highly technical form of magic. A color picture section and an index of persons and keywords complete the volume.

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Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author's own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic.

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In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest. In Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds Daniel Ogden presents three hundred texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. This is the first book in the field to unite extensive selections from both literary and documentary sources. Alongside desc

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"In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting in the modern world. Performing Deception covers a wide range of theories in sociology, philosophy, psychology and elsewhere in order to offer a striking assessment of the way secrecy and deception are woven into social interactions, as well as the illusionary and paradoxical status of expertise."--Publisher's website.

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"Examines a series of powerful artifacts traditionally associated with King Solomon, largely via extra-canonical textual sources--Solomon's ring, bottles to contain evil forces, the so-called Solomon's knot, a shamir, and a flying carpet--and traces their varying cultural resonances"--Provide by publisher.

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