TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fraser,Howard M.
TI  - In the presence of mystery: modernist fiction and the occult 
T2  - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Romance Languages. North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures
SN  - 9781469642703
AV  - PN813 .F73 1992
U1  - 840.09 23
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Romance-language literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Supernatural in literature
KW  - Occultism in literature
KW  - Littérature romane
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Modernisme (Littérature)
KW  - Surnaturel dans la littérature
KW  - Occultisme dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - Spanish & Portuguese
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This study is devoted to the manifestations of the occult in modernist Hispanic short fiction, particularly that of Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Ruben Dario, and Leopoldo Lugones. According to Howard Fraser, modernist fiction exhibited a coherent, thoroughgoing spiritualist experimentation as an antidote to bourgeois materialism. The fascination that such areas as alchemy, theosophy, and the supernatural held for these modernist writers expressed not only a residual Romantic literary sensibility, but also the influence of numerous spiritualist movements around the world. In this regard, the modernistas show a spiritualist attitude toward the Beyond, what Joseph Campell has called "a dimension of the universe that is not available to the senses ... the recognition of something [in nature] that is much greater than the human dimension."
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