03176nam 22005653u 450 991079035740332120210114035747.00-8173-8541-X(CKB)2670000000207256(EBL)589756(OCoLC)670411958(MiAaPQ)EBC589756(EXLCZ)99267000000020725620131216d2010|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Modern Occult Rhetoric[electronic resource] Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth CenturyTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20101 online resource (372 p.)Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc CritDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1466-0 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 Occultism8. 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 A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse. The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as a rhetorical phenomenon tied to language and symbols and more central to American culture than is commonly assumed. Joshua Gunn approaches the occult as an idiom, examining the ways in which acts of textual criticism and interpretation are occultic in nature, as evident in pracAlbma Rhetoric Cult & Soc CritLanguage and languagesMass mediaMass media -- History -- 20th centuryOccultism -- History -- 20th centuryOccultism - Social aspectsPopular culture - History - 20th centuryPopular culture -- History -- 20th centuryLanguage 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.130.14130/.1/4Gunn Joshua1490745AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910790357403321Modern Occult Rhetoric3712210UNINA