10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FANTASTICATION»
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fantastication in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fantastication and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Crop Protection in Medieval Agriculture: Studies in ...
Pliny, a matter-of-fact military man and administrator, did not believe all
fantastication or magic: '... inasmuch as most people believe that hailstorms can
be averted by means ofa charm, the words ofwhich I would notfor my own part
venture to ...
2
Restoration Comedy in Performance
The same 'fantastication' afflicted Rex Whistler's designs for Gielgud's Love for
Love in 1943, and Anthony Quayle's exuberant Relapse at the Lyric,
Hammersmith, in 1947. Walkley's term 'fantastication' exactly pinpointed what
had become a ...
3
From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of ...
... to run more and more afoul of the inanimate” (467). Tanner sees in this the “
acceleration of entropy”, which is “perhaps the most inclusive theme of the book”
(1971, 159; 158). 6.3.5. Liberation: Abstraction and Fantastication The inanimate
...
... a fantastic cloak, and a loose vest. She is neither an accurate historical model
of a boy troubadour, as a costumer of the 1840's might have made her, nor is she
a fantastication of ordinary street dress, as she would have been in the 1750's.
5
Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?
But there is, I repeat, no external evidence for it whatever. It may be pure
fantastication. How, moreover, would it explain the sensations of homecoming
brought to us by cheap music, by kitsch-art or by the shoddiest of jingles and
romances?
6
Art, Creativity, Living
These texts by Rilke and Woolf give us, then, scenes that oscillate between
different degrees of reality, and of fantastication. The creative intelligence of the
narrator is in each case at work upon materials that are both compliant and
resistant, ...
7
The Problems of Philosophy in Their Interconnection: Winter ...
But today we see that we must absolutely blush for the gross fantastication and
folly of these claims, and that the attempt has utterly miscarried. Even today there
is still a set of philosophers who believe that, when physics and biology give up, ...
Moritz Schlick, Henk L. Mulder, A.J. Kox, 1987
... a baroque species, a hybrid of minute erudition, arcane learning, esoteric
citation and almost anarchic fantastication. Pedantry runs riot. But so does the
allegoric, the emblematic, the stuff of dreams. The relevant texts share distinctive
...
9
Exoticism in the Enlightenment
... presumably be scrupulous to avoid falsehood, and Dutch missionaries and
merchant voyagers, who should be equally averse to fantastication, should have
produced accounts which in many ways seem as preposterous as Psalmanazar's
.
George Sebastian Rousseau, Roy Porter, 1990
10
Henry James and the Supernatural
Dane's name may allude to the Cambridge of James's youth, whose emotional
pull his long entry makes clear: “The Cambridge fantastication seems to have
only too much to 'give'—God help me! It gives and gives; everything seems to
give ...
Anna Despotopoulou, Kimberly C. Reed, 2011
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FANTASTICATION»
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fantastication is used in the context of the following news items.
What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired "To Kill …
And that's the odd thing about a great deal of a certain sort of Deep South fiction—its grotesquerie and gothic, its high color and fantastication, the emphasis on ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
Spotlight: Kid Icarus – The Winged Comedy
Is it not possible that we are playing through a fantastication of Icarus's afterlife? Certainly the theme of rebirth is evident in the prefix 'Kid', and ... «Dual Pixels, Jan 15»
Diana Movie Review
... road tunnel in Paris, would have been extremely intriguing. But the melodramatic fantastication of her true affair with Doctor Khan has failed. «Shockya.com, Oct 13»
John Jeremiah Sullivan's essays.
But this is the weakest essay in the book—Sullivan's heart is not really in this kind of fantastication. On the Geoff Dyer-scale, he is a fairly ... «New Yorker, Dec 11»
Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas
(No nation is more fantastication-prone than one born to bourgeois industry and respectability.) The film's toyshop-style figures are surreally ... «Financial Times, Oct 10»
Terry Castle
Faÿ in a sense allegorised – and ratified – Stein's own practice of self-fantastication. Malcolm is modest about her reportorial gleanings and ... «London Review of Books, Dec 07»
