Title Statements
- Full title :Fictional Practice
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2021.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
1 The Path of Desire: Tantra in Indian and Orientalist Literature.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (384 p.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004466005, 9004466002
- oclc:on1272999690
Table of Contents
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Western Learned Magic and the Entanglement of Fiction and Practice -- 2 The Rise of Fiction -- 3 The Power of Imagination -- 4 Fictional Practice -- 5 The Scope of the Volume -- References -- Chapter 1 Magic as Pollution: Fictional Blasphemies and Ritual Realities in the Roman Period (1st cen. bce-4th cen. ce) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fictional Blasphemies: Magic Viewed from the Outside -- 3 Ritual Realities: Magic Viewed from the Inside -- 4 Conclusion
6 The expression-The Spoken Word -- 7 Effect -- 8 Wonder Tales and Legends -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4 Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires -- 1 The Witch in Early Modern Occulture -- 2 Male Authorship -- 3 Ostension -- References -- Chapter 5 When Ritual Texts Become Legendary: Practice and Fiction in Nordic Folklore -- 1 Legends and Black Books, Fiction and Reality -- 2 Cyprian the Magician -- 3 Localising Magical Knowledge -- 4 Owning Magical Knowledge -- 5 Practicing Magical Knowledge -- 6 Fictional Realities -- Archival Sour…
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