Description: Tarot in Culture is a well-illustrated (260 illus.) two-volume multi-author anthology of papers on Tarot. Contributions range from original, in-depth, thoroughly documented studies of Tarot history, art, and literature to artists' statements and other primary source documents. Tarot in Culture is both accessible to the Tarot student and of interest to scholars of other fields, including historians and theorists of art, esotericism, literature, the occult, and popular culture and genres.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and ChartsForeword by Rachel PollackAcknowledgementsIntroduction by Emily E. AugerVolume OnePart I: History and Innovation•"The Double Contribution of Tarot to Popular Culture" by Michael Dummett•"Iconography and Allegory in Fifteenth to Seventeenth-Century Trumps" by Robert Place•"Tarot and Egyptomania" by Helen S. Farley•"The Golden Dawn and Cabbalistic Tarot: Broken Trees of Life and Blood" by June Leavitt•"The Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot: Collaboration and Innovation" by Richard Kaczynski•"Tarot Guide Books as a Literary Genre: Narratives of Destiny" by Paul Mountfort•"The Heterotopian Tarot as Genre with an Analysis of The William Blake Tarot" by Emily E. Auger•"Tarot on the Threshold: Liminality and Illegitimate Knowledge" by Marcus Katz•"Tarot Timeline 1750 to 1980" by Mary K. GreerVolume Two Part II: Tarot in the Arts•"Tarot as 'Secret Tradition' in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins'" by Catherine Waitinas•"The Greater Trumps: Charles Williams and the Metaphysics of Otherness" by Joyce Goggin•The Infinite Grail-Quest of Samuel R. Delany’s Nova: Romance, Science Fiction, and the (Post-) Modern Tarot by Brian Johnson•"Harry Potter and Tarot: Divining the Half-Blood Prince" by Leslie StratynerPart III: The Art of Tarot•"The Tower and the Devil in the Visconti-Sforza Deck: Lost or Absent?" by Helen S. Farley•"Speculations on Cathar Imagery in Tarot" by Christine Parkhurst•"An Iconographic History of the Lovers Card" by Mary K. Greer•"Modern, Antimodern, and Postmodern Feminism in Tarot: Women Living in a House of Cards" by Casey J. Rudkin•"Modern Views of Ancient Goddess in Tarot" by Jeana Jorgensen•"Tenniel Transformed in the Wonderland Tarot" by Emily E. AugerPart IV: Special Topics and Primary Sources•"The Game of Tarot in Provence, 1971–1973 by Christine Parkhurst•"The Facsimile Italian Renaissance Woodcut Tarocchi" by Robert Place•"The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination: Old Symbols for a New Age" by Ed Buryn•"Ancestral Path Tarot, Blue Moon Tarot, and Maat Tarot" by Julie Cuccia-Watts•"Creating the 'Pirate Tarot of the Mystic Bootye'" by Bruce Hersch•"Becoming a Tarot Diviner: From The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot (1992)" by Danny Jorgensen•"The Use of Tarot with Other Folk Arts: Insights from My Journey Across Cultures" by Batya Susan Weinbaum•"Identity and the Creative Process Inspired by Tarot with Poetry by the Poet" by Tabitha Dial•"Using Tarot to Foster Visual and Written Composition: Seeing the Future of Communication" by Casey J. Rudkin•"Reflections on Tarot, Money Exchange Rituals, and Identity Construction in a New Age Bookstore" by Carol S. Matthews We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Tarot in Culture (Volume One), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.