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Gunn, Joshua Gresham.

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Rhetorics of darkness: Modern occultism and the popular imaginary (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rhetorics of darkness: Modern occultism and the popular imaginary (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley)./
Author:	Gunn, Joshua Gresham.
Description:	567 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Robert Lee Scott.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-05A.
Subject:	Folklore. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3052771
ISBN:	0493673121

Rhetorics of darkness: Modern occultism and the popular imaginary (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley).
Gunn, Joshua Gresham.

Rhetorics of darkness: Modern occultism and the popular imaginary (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley). - 567 p.

Adviser: Robert Lee Scott.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2002.

The occult traditionally has been understood as the study of secrets and the practice of mysticism or magic. My dissertation broadens our understanding of occultism by treating it as a rhetorical phenomenon, as an idiom and as a social force inextricably tied to language and symbol. Understood as an idiom, a number of chapters examine the ways in which the critical act is “occult” insofar as much of the work published in discourse and rhetorical studies tends to obsess about the fetishized book or speech in search of a transcendental signified. Understood as a social force, I trace the occult as a form or genre across various media, from newspapers and books to television, to provide a chronicle of occultism in the United States that reveals recurrent patterns in occult texts during the modern era (the late nineteenth century through end of the twentieth). These patterns, I conclude, are premised on a generalized, popular anxiety about language and its limitations, as well as a general unwillingness to contend with the divided or split subject.

ISBN: 0493673121Subjects--Topical Terms:

528224
Folklore.

Rhetorics of darkness: Modern occultism and the popular imaginary (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley).
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