Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #198825 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 496 pages

Times Higher Education Supplement, January 19, 2007
The general effect is rather like that of reading through a
first-class encyclopedia.

Review
Warner's writing has a touch of Jorge Luis Borges's mischievousness. (Richard Mabey, Guardian Books of the Year )

Her dazzling deconstructions of myths and folk tales [are] always touched with a few spells of her own. (Richard Mabey, Guardian Books of the Year )

...often manages splendidly vivid pictorial evocations ... a bold, imaginative and provocative study, with a range few other writers would dare. (Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement )

The general effect is rather like that of reading through a first-class encyclopedia. (Nigel Barley, Times Higher Education Supplement )

Frighteningly literate and well-informed (Roz Kaveney, Time Out )

Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation (Steven Connor, The Independent )

She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things (Steven Connor, The Independent )

Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and adroad, in our media and machineries of mind. (Steven Connor, The Independent )

As always Warner's scholarship, eclecticism and inventiveness dazzle. (Bel Mooney, The Times )

It is a book of wonders. (Hilary Mantel,The Guardian )

Phantasmagoria is a fascinating history of spirited bodies and haunted machines, but a reminder too of why the metaphors still get under our skin (Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph )

This book's enquiries are wide-ranging, pertinent and up-to- date. All Marina Warner's material is freshly and enticingly presented. (The Guardian, Hilary Mantel )

This book is a powerful statement. (Hilary Mantel,The Guardian )

Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation. (Stephen Connor, The Independent )

A densely layered book (Mike Dash, Sunday Telegraph )

She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things. (Stephen Connor, The Independent )

Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and abroad, in our media and machineries of mind. (Stephen Connor, The Independent )

Splendidly vivid pictorial evocations...it is a bold, imaginative and provocative study, with a range few other writers would dare.

The Guardian(Review), October 14, 2006
This book's enquiries are wide-ranging, pertinent and up to date.
All Marina Warner's material is freshly and enticingly presented.

Customer Reviews

The inner self through history
This book deals with projections of subconscious memories, and discusses the inner reality of the self as an imaginary state, situated under historical and technological influences.
However, the book exemplifies phantasms so well within wide range of 'scientific' endeavours and authentic artistic activities (see pages 115-118) that I am left convinced that the spirit is not illusory but does exist or at least hold a valid reality. By showing so well the existence of the illusory state of the spirit, I am left feeling that it is not illusionary at all. This is fascinating. A remarkable achievement and intriguing work, by author Marina Warner.