LEADER 03176nam 22005653u 450 001 9910790357403321 005 20210114035747.0 010 $a0-8173-8541-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000207256 035 $a(EBL)589756 035 $a(OCoLC)670411958 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC589756 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000207256 100 $a20131216d2010|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aModern Occult Rhetoric$b[electronic resource] $eMass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 225 1 $aAlbma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1466-0 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a8. 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 330 $a A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse. The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as a rhetorical phenomenon tied to language and symbols and more central to American culture than is commonly assumed. Joshua Gunn approaches the occult as an idiom, examining the ways in which acts of textual criticism and interpretation are occultic in nature, as evident in prac 410 0$aAlbma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit 606 $aLanguage and languages 606 $aMass media 606 $aMass media -- History -- 20th century 606 $aOccultism -- History -- 20th century 606 $aOccultism - Social aspects 606 $aPopular culture - History - 20th century 606 $aPopular culture -- History -- 20th century 615 4$aLanguage and languages. 615 4$aMass media. 615 4$aMass media -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aOccultism -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aOccultism - Social aspects. 615 4$aPopular culture - History - 20th century. 615 4$aPopular culture -- History -- 20th century. 676 $a130.14 676 $a130/.1/4 700 $aGunn$b Joshua$01490745 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790357403321 996 $aModern Occult Rhetoric$93712210 997 $aUNINA