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Title: Alchemization of the Mind

Alchemization of the Mind

Literature and Dissociation

by Zbigniew Bialas (Volume editor) Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski (Volume editor)
©2003 Edited Collection 208 Pages
English Literature & Culture
Series: Literary and Cultural Theory, Volume 13

Summary

Ever since the Renaissance urge to modernize enforced irreverent reading of ancient and classical texts, the European mind resisted complete secularization. The new dissociated sensibility followed the processes of formal as well as conceptual alchemization. The papers collected in this volume map a wide range of cultural and literary discourses, from Reformation theology to reader-response criticism to modern fiction.

Details

Pages
208
Year
2003
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631506455
Language
English
Keywords
Alchemie (Motiv) Literatur Dissoziation Apokalyptik Kongress Bergen (Norwegen, 2000) Alchemie
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2003. 204 pp.

Biographical notes

Zbigniew Bialas (Volume editor) Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski (Volume editor)

The Editors: Zbigniew Białas is Professor of English at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. His recent publications include Mapping Wild Gardens and papers on colonial and postcolonial literature. Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski is Lecturer in American studies at the same university. He has published on South African fiction and American regional writing.

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