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  • Alchemist in Literature
    Theodore Ziolkowski
    Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante’s Inferno down to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative (the transmutation of baser...
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    49,80 €

  • Cults and Conspiracies
    Theodore Ziolkowski
    Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world's first conspiracy. Whereas recent generations have tended to find their conspiracies in politics and...
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    35,56 €

  • The View from the Tower
    Theodore Ziolkowski
    Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia in its cultural context and to explore the biographical circumstances that motivat...
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    47,44 €

  • Scandal on Stage
    Theodore Comp Ziolkowski
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    60,57 €

  • The Mirror of Justice
    Theodore Ziolkowski
    This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal’s Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts,...
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    71,30 €

  • Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus
    Theodore Comp Ziolkowski
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    30,05 €

  • German Romanticism and Its Institutions
    Theodore Ziolkowski
    Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their...
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    71,50 €