Theodore Ziolkowski

The Alchemist in Literature

From Dante to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the figure of the alchemist in literature from Dante to the present and shows how the popular response to that figure has changed through the ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780198834168
• ISBN-10: 0198834160
• Artikelnr.: 56788969

Autorenporträt

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Theodore Ziolkowski attended school in Montevallo, Alabama, where his father was a professor of music at the college. Having attained his B.A. (1951) and M.A. (1952) at Duke University, he spent a year at the University of Innsbruck before going to Yale University for his Ph.D. in German (1957). Following assistant and associate professorships at Yale and Columbia, he moved in 1964 to Princeton, where he served as professor, chairman of his department, and Dean of the Graduate School before his retirement in 2001. In addition to several visiting professorships, he has received numerous grants and awards in the United States and in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, or Materia Prima
Satirizations, or Nigredo
Romanticizations, or Cauda Pavonis
Adaptations, or Albedo
Poeticizations, or Fermentatio
Spiritualizations, or Rubedo
Popularizations, or Projectio
Conclusion, or Quinta Essentia
Index