{"product_id":"the-fanatical-pursuit-of-purity","title":"The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fanatical Pursuit of Purity\u003c\/em\u003e is a \u003cem\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/em\u003e or attempt at a total art-work in the Wagnerian tradition. It prefigures a puppet-stage or toy-theatre within which the lead character or marionette, Phosphorous Cool, has his circumference. Into this world other dolls - Mastodon Helix, Heathcote Dervish and Warlock Splendour Thomas - nimbly trip and spin. All of this finds itself punctuated by a third dimension or alternative space. It proves to be the unconscious or dream-space inhabited by these exercises in a macabre pantomime. This rival or extending narrative brings back our wooden figurines as part of an alternative \u003cem\u003eVictoriana\u003c\/em\u003e. It deals with Stephen KnightÕs analysis of Jack the Ripper and a variant on Mary ShelleyÕs \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e - even James WhaleÕs film starring Boris Karloff. Mr Bowden believes in the creation of a separate world as artÕs real purpose. It goes without saying that the result is Ôpolitically incorrect!Õ.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Bowden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43998186307745,"sku":"9780955740237","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1g4zwjy-front-shortedge-384_1051f2b7-99be-4f9d-8201-931e10c53b87.jpg?v=1747224961","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fanatical-pursuit-of-purity","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}