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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
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| Contents |
Writing in the space between : life after death in the fiction of Richard Matheson / Jennie Chapman -- Psionic boom : John W. Campbell, astounding science fiction and "psi-powers" in post-war science fiction / Brian Baker -- Everyday magic : surrealism and parapsychology / Gavin Parkinson -- Precognition as a problem of heredity in the 1930s / Kitt Price -- Divining the distant past : altered consciousness, the paranormal, and archaeology / Olav Hammer -- Alice A. Bailey and the consciousness of the new age / Tim Rudbøg -- The herald of the Christ : Benjamin Creme and the theosophical imagination / Jake Poller -- Prism of Lyra : UFO consciousness and portals to cosmic awareness / Andrew Fergus Wilson -- Carlos Castaneda and the construction of non-ordinary reality / Christopher Partridge -- "The prophetic discernment of what is possible" : Aldous Huxley's The doors of perception and Bergsonian mysticism -- Altered consciousness in easy rider and altered states : a historical and phenomenological analysis / Kevin Fisher -- "Damned voice in my head" : Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness / Steven Earnshaw |
| Summary |
"This volume investigates the representation of ASCs in the culture of the twentieth century and examines the theoretical models that attempt to explain them. The international contributors critically examine a variety of ASCs, including precognition, near-death experiences, telepathy, New Age 'channelling', contact with aliens and UFOs, the use of alcohol and entheogens, analysing both the impact of ASCs on the culture and how cultural and technological changes influenced ASCs. The contributors are drawn from the fields of English and American literature, religious studies, Western esotericism, film studies, sociology and history of art, and bring to bear on ASCs their own disciplinary and conceptual perspectives, as well as a broader interdisciplinary knowledge of the subject. The collection represents a vital contribution to the growing body of work on both ASCs and the wider academic engagement with millennialism, entheogens, occulture and the paranormal"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Altered states of consciousness in literature.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General.
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English literature.
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American literature.
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Altered states of consciousness in literature.
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Altered states of consciousness.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Poller, Jake (Jacob Robert), editor.
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| LC no. |
2019980178 |
| ISBN |
9780429061196 |
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0429061196 |
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9780429588341 |
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0429588348 |
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9780429590283 |
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0429590288 |
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9780429592225 |
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0429592221 |
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