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LURE OF THE ARCANE
LURE OF THE ARCANE
Book Category:
Literary Collections > General
Author:
Ziolkowski, Theodore
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9781421409580
Price:
USD 39.95
Publication Year:
2013

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Theodore Ziolkowski's exploration of "literature of cult and conspiracy" involves a long and pleasantly vertiginous journey from classical antiquity to the present, covering secret groups from ancient times, the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians of the post-Reformation, lodges of the Enlightenment period, "secret societies of Romantic Socialism," and modern and postmodern examples, with an "interlude" on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903). The juxtapositions in the study are impressive in a number of ways because Ziolkowski starts from the beginning, as it were, and mixes the esoteric and cultured with the popular

 

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