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Modern occult rhetoric : mass media and the drama of secrecy in the twentieth century /

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Main Author: Gunn, Joshua, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:
Occultism > Social aspects.
Popular culture > History > 20th century.
Language and languages > Miscellanea.
Mass media.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • What is the occult?
  • Toward an occult poetics
  • H. P. Blavatsky and the magic of esoteric language
  • On textual occultism
  • Aleister Crowley and the hermeneutic of authority
  • The death of the modern magus: "the masses" and irony's other
  • Prime-time Satanism: stock footage and the death of modern occultism
  • The allegory of The ninth gate.