Tarot in Culture Volumes One and Two
Valleyhome Books, 2014.
Tarot in Culture (Clifford, ON: Valleyhome Books, 2014) 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.
Tarot in Culture anthology passed academic peer review several times with different publishers, only to remain unpublished. With the unanimous support of the authors, I have made it available as a Kobo ebook (March 2014) and in printed softcover and hardcover with jacket from Lulubooks (June 2014).
Tarot in Culture Volume One
Hardcover (with jacket) ISBN 978-0-9936944-3-1 [June 2014]
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9936944-1-7 [June 2014]
Ebook ISBN 978-0-9936944-0-0 [March 2014]
Tarot in Culture Volume Two
Hardcover (with jacket) ISBN 978-0-9936944-4-8 [June 2014]
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9936944-2-4 [June 2014]
Ebook ISBN 978-0-9936944-5-5 [March 2014]
If you have trouble with the links, go to the main site for Kobo or Lulu and search for the title.
Anyone who purchased the ebook version of Tarot in Culture before April 29th, 2014, may get upgraded files (only a few minor glitches corrected) for free by requesting them from [email protected]
Erratum: In some print copies only, the last two sentences on page xxxix are repeated at the top of page xl.
Some of the university libraries that have already or are in the process of adding Tarot in Culture to their collections include:
Table of Contents
Foreword
Rachael Pollack
Introduction
Emily E. Auger
Part I: History and Innovation
Tarot in Culture anthology passed academic peer review several times with different publishers, only to remain unpublished. With the unanimous support of the authors, I have made it available as a Kobo ebook (March 2014) and in printed softcover and hardcover with jacket from Lulubooks (June 2014).
Tarot in Culture Volume One
Hardcover (with jacket) ISBN 978-0-9936944-3-1 [June 2014]
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9936944-1-7 [June 2014]
Ebook ISBN 978-0-9936944-0-0 [March 2014]
Tarot in Culture Volume Two
Hardcover (with jacket) ISBN 978-0-9936944-4-8 [June 2014]
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9936944-2-4 [June 2014]
Ebook ISBN 978-0-9936944-5-5 [March 2014]
If you have trouble with the links, go to the main site for Kobo or Lulu and search for the title.
Anyone who purchased the ebook version of Tarot in Culture before April 29th, 2014, may get upgraded files (only a few minor glitches corrected) for free by requesting them from [email protected]
Erratum: In some print copies only, the last two sentences on page xxxix are repeated at the top of page xl.
- Emily E. Auger interviewed about Tarot in Culture by author Gwendolyn Womack. 1 July 2017.
- This project was awarded the Tarosophist of the Year Award (2009)
- Reviews by Dr. Arthur Rosengarten and Prof. Elizabeth Sklar
- The tech narrative
Some of the university libraries that have already or are in the process of adding Tarot in Culture to their collections include:
- Australia/New Zealand: Aukland University of Technology (AUT) and The University of Queensland
- Canada: Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario), the University of Guelph (Ontario), University of Toronto, and the University of Victoria (British Columbia)
- United Kingdom: The British Library, the Bodleian Library, and the Warburg Institute (University of London)
- United States: Butler University (Indiana), Morgan Library of Colorado State University, Hampshire College (Massachusetts), Mississippi University for Women, Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University (New Jersey), University of Illinois, the University of Kansas Libraries, and University at Buffalo (New York)
Table of Contents
Foreword
Rachael Pollack
Introduction
Emily E. Auger
Part I: History and Innovation
- The Double Contribution of Tarot to Popular Culture
Michael Dummett - Iconography and Allegory in Fifteenth to Seventeenth-Century Trumps
Robert Place - Tarot and Egyptomania
Helen S. Farley - The Golden Dawn and Cabbalistic Tarot:
Broken Trees of Life and Blood
June Leavitt - The Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot: Collaboration and Innovation
Richard Kaczynski - Tarot Guide Books as a Literary Genre: Narratives of Destiny
Paul Mountfort - The Heterotopian Tarot as Genre with an Analysis of The William Blake Tarot
Emily E. Auger - Tarot on the Threshold: Liminality and Illegitimate Knowledge
Marcus Katz - Tarot Timeline 1750 to 1980
Mary K. Greer
- Tarot as "Secret Tradition" in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land:
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
Catherine Waitinas - The Greater Trumps: Charles Williams and the Metaphysics of Otherness
Joyce Goggin - The Infinite Grail-Quest of Samuel R. Delany’s Nova: Romance, Science Fiction, and the (Post-) Modern Tarot
Brian Johnson - Harry Potter and Tarot: Divining the Half-Blood Prince
Leslie Stratyner
- The Tower and the Devil in the Visconti-Sforza Deck: Lost or Absent?
Helen S. Farley - Speculations on Cathar Imagery in Tarot
Christine Parkhurst - An Iconographic History of the Lovers Card
Mary K. Greer - Modern, Antimodern, and Postmodern Feminism in Tarot: Women Living in a House of Cards
Casey J. Rudkin - Modern Views of Ancient Goddess in Tarot
Jeana Jorgensen - Tenniel Transformed in the Wonderland Tarot
Emily E. Auger
- The Game of Tarot in Provence, 1971–1973
Christine Parkhurst - The Facsimile Italian Renaissance Woodcut Tarocchi
Robert Place - The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination: Old Symbols for a New Age
Ed Buryn - Ancestral Path Tarot, Blue Moon Tarot, and Maat Tarot
Julie Cuccia-Watts - Creating the "Pirate Tarot of the Mystic Bootye"
Bruce Hersch - Becoming a Tarot Diviner: From The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot (1992)
Danny Jorgensen - The Use of Tarot with Other Folk Arts: Insights from My Journey Across Cultures
Batya Susan Weinbaum - Identity and the Creative Process Inspired by Tarot with Poetry by the Poet
Tabitha Dial - Using Tarot to Foster Visual and Written Composition: Seeing the Future of Communication
Casey J. Rudkin - Reflections on Tarot, Money Exchange Rituals, and Identity Construction in a New Age Bookstore
Carol S. Matthews