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The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema

Part of the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Book Series

Editors: Bauduin, Tessel M.; Johnsson, Henrik

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76499-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-76498-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 16, 2018

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction: Conceptualizing Occult Modernism

Bauduin, Tessel M.; Johnsson, Henrik

Pages: 1 –29

[In this introduction the editors present the topic of the book, launching the concept of ‘occult modernism’ to describe the interaction of occultism and modernism in the arts. A brief overview of how earlier scholarship has neglected or even actively avoided mentioning the relationship between...
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A History of Research into Occult Modernist Literature

Johnsson, Henrik

Pages: 31 –45

[This chapter traces the history of research into the relationship between occultism and literary modernism in Europe. Earlier scholarship on this topic has failed to fully appreciate the extent of the interactions between occultism and modernism. This overview of scholarship is divided into...
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Visionary Mimesis and Occult Modernism in Literature and Art Around 1900

Magnússon, Gísli

Pages: 49 –66

[The concept of visionary mimesis, central to this chapter, entails that the artist-author, who identifies as a visionary, aims not to imitate the material world but rather to represent spiritual reality. Writers such as Guy de Maupassant, Gustav Meyrink, August Strindberg, and Rainer Maria...
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August Strindberg’s Art in Modernist and Occult Context

Lahelma, Marja

Pages: 67 –92

[Modernism was preoccupied with expressing the inexpressible and revealing the invisible. This manifested in the art of August Strindberg, as is explored in this chapter, which focuses in particular on Strindberg’s photographs and paintings. In his artistic pursuits Strindberg aimed to reunite...
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‘Only Poets and Occultists Believe in Them Just Now’: Fairies and the Modernist Crisis of Authorship

Faxneld, Per

Pages: 93 –110

[A fragmentation of self often informed the modernist quest for redefining the authorial self, a development explored in this chapter. The focus lies on the crisis of authorship as it manifested in the works of British writers and artists who claimed to have been inspired by fairies or even had...
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Return from Oblivion: Joséphin Péladan’s Literary Esotericism

Chaitow, Sasha

Pages: 113 –136

[Joséphin Péladan (1858–1918) was a key figure in the development of French symbolism. The author of over a hundred novels and monographs, his work represents a unique, eclectic attempt to use art and literature as a vehicle for esoteric transformation, with strong elements of early modernist...
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Ghosts Before Breakfast: The Appetite for the Beyond in Early Avant-Garde Film

Hjartarson, Benedikt

Pages: 137 –162

[Hans Richter’s Vormittagsspuk is traditionally regarded as one of the key works of avant-garde filmmaking in the 1920s. Scholars have focused primarily on Richter’s experimental techniques, formal aspects of the work, and its Dadaist images of burlesque play. Less attention has been paid to the...
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Marie Wilson and Nanos Valaoritis in Conversation: Surrealism, Imagetext, and Occult Aesthetics in Terre de Diamant

Ferentinou, Victoria

Pages: 163 –191

[Terre de Diamant (1958) is a collection of 16 lithographs and texts created collaboratively by the American artist Marie Wilson and Greek poet Nanos Valaoritis. The close reading provided here touches upon Valaoritis’s dialogue with French and Greek discourses on modernist and surrealist...
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Magic Art Between the Primitive and the Occult: Animal Sacrifice in Jan Švankmajer’s Drawer Fetishes

Noheden, Kristoffer

Pages: 195 –213

[This chapter considers the Czech artist Jan Švankmajer and the six ‘drawer fetishes’ he created in 2014–2015. The drawer fetishes are positioned within the context of Švankmajer’s general tendency towards alchemical transmutation of everyday objects, and the chapter argues for a reading of them...
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Retrogardism and Occulture in Håkan Sandell’s Poetry

D’Amico, Giuliano

Pages: 215 –234

[The poetic works of contemporary Swedish poet Håkan Sandell (b. 1962) belong to the current of retrogardism, a poetic style that focuses on premodernist forms and themes. Mining the usefulness of the theoretical construct of occulture, this chapter offers an analysis of several of Sandell’s...

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