Magic, rhetoric, and literacy : an eccentric history of the composing imagination

著者

• Covino, William A.

書誌事項

Magic, rhetoric, and literacy : an eccentric history of the composing imagination

William A. Covino

（SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning : theory and practice）

State University of New York Press, c1994

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward, in order to construct a suggestive conceptual framework for disrupting our conventional notions about rhetoric and literacy. Offering an overarching, pointed synthesis of the interpenetration of magic, rhetoric, and literacy, William A. Covino draws from theorists ranging from Plato and Cornelius Agrippa to Paulo Freire and Mary Daly, and analyzes the different magics that operate in Renaissance occult philosophy and Romantic literature, as well as in popular indicators of mass literacy such as "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and The National Enquirer. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy distinguishes two kinds of magic-rhetoric that continue to affect our psychological and cultural life today. Generative magic-rhetoric creates novel possibilities for action, within a broad sympathetic universe of signs and symbols. Arresting magic-rhetoric attempts to induce automatistic behavior, by inculcating rules and maxims that function like magic ritual formulas: JUST SAY NO. In this connection, the literate individual is one who can interrogate arresting language, and generate "counter-spells."

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction: Articulate and Inarticulate Power 1. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy Magic Rhetoric Literacy 2. The Interanimation of Phantasms The History of Phantasy Renaissance Magic Rhetoric in the Light of Faith Agrippa's Occult Philosophy 3. Parcels and Palimpsests From Magic to Science Natural Language Nationalized Magic and Romanticism De Quincey's Palimpsest 4. Magic Consciousness Burke's Magic Adorno Against Occultism Marcuse's Universe of Discourse Freire's Magic Consciousness 5. Grimoires and Witches Arresting the New Age The National Enquirer Magic Nuggets and Tabloid Epistemology Oprah and the Witches Notes References Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA24292640
• ISBN:
  • 0791420833
  • 0791420841
• LCCN: 93041344
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Albany
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 189 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : P301
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Rhetoric
  • LCSH : Literacy
  • LCSH : Magic
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA1230196X