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Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture - 9781845193294

Un libro in lingua di Friesen Ryan Curtis edito da Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, 2010

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Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Beliefs and claims concerning impossible phenomena and superhuman agency require literary historians to determine whether an occult system of magical operation is being described in a given text. Each chapter in this volume evaluates whether a chosen early modern author is endorsing magic as efficacious or divinely sanctioned, or criticizing it for being fraudulent or unholy. By examining works of fiction, it is possible to explore fantastic settings which were not intended to be synonymous with the early modern audience's everyday experience, settings where magic exists and operates according to the playwrights' designs.

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