The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities)

Tessel M. Bauduin is Postdoctoral Research Associate in Art History at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.   Henrik Johnsson is Associate Professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Troms, Norway.  1          Introduction: Conceptualizing Occult Modernism Tessel M. Bauduin and Henrik Johnsson 2          A History of Research into Occult Modernist Literature Henrik Johnsson   Part I Artistic Practices   3                    Visionary Mimesis and Occult Modernism in Literature and Art Around 1900 Gsli Magnsson 4          August Strindberg's Art in Modernist and Occult Context             Marja Lahelma 5                    'Only Poets and Occultists Believe in Them Just Now': Fairies and the Modernist Crisis of Authorship  Per Faxneld   Part II Aesthetics   6          Return from Oblivion: Josphin Pladan's Literary Esotericism Sasha Chaitow 7                    Ghosts Before Breakfast: The Appetite for the Beyond in Early Avant-Garde Film Benedikt Hjartarson 8                    Marie Wilson and Nanos Valaoritis in Conversation: Surrealism, Imagetext, and Occult Aesthetics in Terre de Diamant Victoria Ferentinou   Part III Occulture   9                    Magic Art Between the Primitive and the Occult: Animal Sacrifice in Jan svankmajer's Drawer Fetishes Kristoffer Noheden 10        Retrogardism and Occulture in Hkan Sandell's Poetry Giuliano D'Amico