Poetry and Magic
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 102
ISSN: 1837-1892
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In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 102
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 104
ISSN: 0037-783X
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 73, Issue 3, p. 316-330
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 73, Issue 5, p. 1264-1265
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: International Library of Historical Studies
In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic - the attempted communication with angels and demons - both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position in a patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their attempted dealings with the spirit world, some female practitioners employed magic to u
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Volume 22, Issue 5, p. 640-642
ISSN: 1470-1316
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Volume 197, Issue 11, p. 4717-4741
ISSN: 1573-0964
This paper considers how magic power – as a political resource, and as a metaphor for political power – is implicated in current and past thought about sovereignty and domination. Shakespeare's treatments of politics, magic, sovereignty and domination are an illuminating source, relating as they do to the Machiavellian tradition, and to later treatments of the themes by Hobbes and Weber. The question is raised how articulated scepticism about political power relates to scepticism about alleged magic; and how the conduct of Shakespeare's magicians casts light on their conduct qua political actors.
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In: Law, culture & the humanities, Volume 1, Issue 3, p. 316-332
ISSN: 1743-9752
This paper offers a reading of Clint Eastwood's film Mystic River. Mystic River differs from archetypal Hollywood revenge movies in one important way: the act of revenge kills the wrong man. Moreover, instead of abandoning its wayward avenger, the movie strives to defend or at least to understand the act of wrongful vengeance as the loving act of a kingly father. To explore the connection between trauma, masculinity, and revenge, the paper follows the stories of the film's three male protagonists. Dave is defeated by his boyhood trauma and never recovers. Jimmy, the film's avenger, forcefully resists the dehumanizing power of the loss of his daughter by taking revenge. Sean neither succumbs to trauma nor masters it. Instead, Sean –when confronted by his wife's silent departure and with the fact of Jimmy's vengeance –responds by admitting his vulnerability. An upright man struggling to balance his masculinity with the reality of his tragic limitations, Sean's willingness to accept his human finitude is set against Jimmy's rebellious insistence on his superhuman justice based on the prerogative of vengeance.
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 185-195
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers
ISSN: 1545-6846