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- Title
The Tarot of Jane Austen: Re-Envisioning the World.
- Authors
Auger, Emily
- Abstract
In pre-1970 Tarot gaming decks, trump card XXI typically shows either a cityscape or a semi-nude female dancer inside a wreath surrounded by symbols of the Christian evangelists. More recent Tarot decks, virtually all of which are used for fortune-telling, occult, or personal development exercises, propose many unique variations of this card: card XXI of the Tarot of Jane Austen shows a wedding. This paper considers the significance of the application of this motif, ubiquitous in popular film and literary genres, to Tarot card XXI relative to its conventional iconography and interpretation as established during and after the fifteenth century.
- Subjects
TAROT; FORTUNE-telling by cards; CHRISTIANITY; LITERARY form; SYMBOLISM in art; AUSTEN, Jane, 1775-1817
- Publication
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 4, p10
- ISSN
1547-4348
- Publication type
Article