Modern enchantments : the cultural power of secular magic /
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| Author / Creator: | During, Simon, 1950- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. |
| Description: | x, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4699155 |
| Summary: | Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts-and by magic, During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows-affect people? |
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| Physical Description: | x, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674006070 |
