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‘Historiola: The Power of Narrative Charms’ by Carl Nordblom
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‘Historiola: The Power of Narrative Charms’ by Carl Nordblom

What Nordblom has done is provide us with a framework to discover our own relationship to the magical or sorcerous narrative within our own lives – a kind of praxis which enables us to think about word and image in a way which may be unusual to some moderns. […] we should thank the author for providing us with only a glimpse of the many worlds of the historiolae which may present the enquiring mind with rich alterities.

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