Spells: Spellcraft to Bring Magic to Your Life and Reality to Your Desires by Green Matthew

Spells: Spellcraft to Bring Magic to Your Life and Reality to Your Desires by Green Matthew

In Cold Modernism, Jessica Burstein explores various cultural facets of modernism, tying them into a fresh conceptual framework. Central to her analysis is the important premise that our current understanding of modernism is fundamentally incomplete. Reacting against hot, libidinous, and psychology-centered modernism, Burstein asserts that a constellation of modernist sensibility has been left unacknowledged, one that laid the essential groundwork for postmodernism.

In her wide-ranging discussion of fiction, poetry, art, and fashion, Burstein sets up the parameters of what she calls cold modernism. According to Burstein, cold modernism operates on the premise that there is a world in which the mind does not exist, let alone matter; it runs counter to the tropical bodies of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Basing the core of her analysis on the written works of Wyndham Lewis, Burstein views varying disciplines within modernism through the lens of their human interest, focusing on the coldest works that convey the mechanical and inhuman. In these works, she contends, the role of the self is nonexistent, and the individual mind is merely a physical fact.

Cold Modernism raises questions fundamental to the understanding of modernist and postmodernist written and visual culture and is destined to become essential reading in the field.

Green, Matthew: - For the past fourteen years, MATTHEW GREEN has worked as a correspondent for Reuters and the Financial Times, reporting from over thirty countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. His first book, The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Joseph Kony, won a Jerwood Award and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. His writing has also appeared in the Economist, The Times and Esquire. www.matthewgreenjournalism.com

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ISBN 13	9780760709313
ISBN 10	0760709319
Title	Spells: Spellcraft to Bring Magic to Your Life and Reality to Your Desires
Author	Green Matthew
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Barnes And Noble Books
Number of pages	79
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