The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World

by Allan Kilner-Johnson

Book Overview

Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult.

Although the early decades of the twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350255343
• ISBN13: 9781350255340
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"