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Autore |
Gunn Joshua |
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Titolo |
Modern Occult Rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (372 p.) |
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Collana |
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Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit |
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Disciplina |
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Language and languages |
Mass media |
Mass media -- History -- 20th century |
Occultism -- History -- 20th century |
Occultism - Social aspects |
Popular culture - History - 20th century |
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Esoterica; 1. What Is the Occult?; Interlude: Erasing the Grooves: On Cold Feet; 2. Toward an Occult Poetics; Interlude: Mysteries of the Unknown; 3. H. P. Blavatsky and the Magic of Esoteric Language; 4. On Textual Occultism; Part II: Exoterica; Interlude: Re-membering Crowley; 5. Aleister Crowley and the Hermeneutic of Authority; Interlude: On Stolen Letters and Lettered Secrets; 6. The Death of the Modern Magus: "The Masses" and Irony's Other; 7. Prime-Time Satanism: Stock Footage and the Death of Modern Occultism |
8. The Allegory of The Ninth GateEpilogue: The Fool's Yapping Cur; Appendix 1: Scholarship on Occultism; Appendix 2: Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse. The occult has traditionally |
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