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The Waterless Sea A Curious History of Mirages 1st Edition by Christopher Pinney ISBN 1780239327 9781780239323

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Author(s): Christopher Pinney

ISBN(s): 9781780239323, 1780239327

Edition: Hardcover

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Year: 2018

Language: English

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Author: Christopher Pinney

The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages 1st Edition:

Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources relate mirages to the “thirst of gazelles,” a metaphor for the futility of desire. Starting in the late eighteenth century, mirages became a symbol in the West of Oriental despotism—a negative, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More often, our obsession with mirages conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion—and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.

The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Strange Visions Under a Cliff in Central India, October 1829
2. A World History of Mirages: The Thirst of the Gazelle
3. ‘Fallacious Evidence of the Senses’
4. ‘Mocking Our Distress’
5. Cold and Hot: The Geography of Mirage
6. Mirage and Crisis
7. Oriental Mirages and ‘Spectatorial Democracy’
8. From Clam-monsters to Representative Democracy
9. The Halted Viewer and Sfumato
10. Memory and Modernity
11. Theatrical Mirages
12. The ‘Mirage Medium of Fancy’
13. Mirage and Oriental Despotism
14. Keeping Mecca and Medina Invisible
15. Inside Abdul Hamid II’s Head
16. Mirage Pharmakon: Wild and Domestic
Epilogue: Real, But Not True