[PDF.31cn] Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)

Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)

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 | #2759283 in Books |  2005-07-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.19 x6.34 x9.30l,1.60 | File type: PDF | 376 pages

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||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| An armchair theoretical discussion of magic|By Taylor Ellwood|As someone who used to be an academic and is a magician, I thought I would pick this work up and see what Gunn had to offer, on the subject of the occult, from an academic perspective.

First let me tell you what he does right: He draws on some occult texts in his arguments and engages the material fairly| |"Gunn has crafted an exceptionally fine book exploring discourse that hides, disguises, and occludes. He shows how central such discourse is in the world we live in. The book's linkage of 19th-century occult texts with the impenetrable books of today's fasiona

This book is a broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in American cultural, political, and religious discourse. The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets or 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, exami...

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