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...: Stanford University Press, 2010 Karen Pinkus has succeeded in tracing the notion of alchemy from its beginnings to the twenty-­first century across historical, medicohistorical, artistic, and liter- ary divides to illustrate its ubiquity as a serious metaphysical, historical, theo- retical...

...: Stanford University Press, 2010 Karen Pinkus has succeeded in tracing the notion of alchemy from its beginnings to the twenty-­first century across historical, medicohistorical, artistic, and liter- ary divides to illustrate its ubiquity as a serious metaphysical, historical, theo- retical...

... of all happiness, agony loses its direness and the despotism of the body slacks off. Spiritual alchemy could transform physical pain into sources for happi- ness. So someone would celebrate his burnt house; another would remain in a cheerful mood with a poor life...

... “These new materials are expressive of our own age. They speak in the vernacular of the twentieth century. Theirs is the language of invention, of synthesis. Industrial chemistry today rivals alchemy!” —Paul Frankl, Form and Re-Form, 1930 an announcement...

... of working out the argument and especially in the writing process, a kind of alchemy occurs, and a new element emerges, something like the productive power that Marx says arises from cooperation itself. Marx (1977, 447) explains that when workers cooperate in a planned way, they strip off the fetters...

... Perspective , edited by Falk Lisa , 11 – 20 . Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press . Scott James C. 2009 . The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Sherry Dana . 2009 . “Social Alchemy...

... that accumulate around individuality (143). Because those very values are remediated by social media platforms, Insta- poetry, a phenomenon unwelcomed by critics but celebrated by invisible audi- ences of millions, as Monroe put it, may yet tell us a great deal about the strange alchemy of immediacy...

...- fect model of static desire offered by the Doctor: 5 Much of Carter's reading of surrealism, in fact, seems to have been influenced by Cardinal and Short's Surrealism: Permanent Revolution, which Carter obliquely references in "The Alchemy of the Word": Surrealism posits poetry...

... Butler Burke s discovery of seemingly self- generating radiobes (a mysterious crystalline formation resulting from gelatin s interaction with radium) raised the specter of modern- day alchemy by casting doubt over the boundaries between living and nonliving beings. More disturbing than any other...

... Shelley's Frankenstein, the poem anticipates the novel's famous merging of alchemy and natural philosophy to investigate the sources of life and build animate forms from dead materials.1 Indeed, Thalaba presents a wider range of experiments upon physical bodies and life energies than does...

... by Fink Bruce . Bk. 20 of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan . New York : Norton . Materer Timothy . 1995 . Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Pappas Robin . 2009 . “H.D. and Havelock Ellis: Popular Science and the Gendering...

... of a materialist science that divided off the possible from the impossible, yet the founders of that science often held beliefs like Isaac Newton's faith in alchemy or Francis Bacon's interest in the occult. One of the affordances of fantasy is to suspend strict categorization so that readers can immerse...

... and sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and Beliefs of strange and impossible shapes.”2 Against knowledge produced through experimental labor, Bacon goes on to disparage “these Sciences which hold so much of imagination and Belief,” such as “degenerate Natural Magic, Alchemy, Astrology...

... and re-inventing identity, collectively. But an echo is not a return of the same, it is a re-constituted return that is literally forged from the collision of voice and 15 In The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Patricia Williams describes the brutal, racist violence suffered at times by African...

... to it (108). When the narrator bitterly enquires, “Why shouldn’t rats eat a de la Poer as a de le Poer eats forbidden things?” he hints at the potentially revolutionary consequences of oppression (108). The Alchemy of Revolution In “The Rats in the Walls” the antiquarian solution to the instability...

...: The Novel of Formation as Genre. Genre 12, no 3: 293 311. Jacobson, Matthew Frye. 1998. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Leader- Picone, Cameron. 2014. Pilgrims in an Unholy Land: Satire and the Chal- lenge of African...

... with the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and ending in 1920s Holly­wood, Thomas Pynchon’s novel Against the Day (2006) features a wide range of phe- nomena amid a capitalist environment, including bilocation, anarchy, alchemy, and time travel. Initial reviews tended to criticize the novel for its hundreds...

... welcomes the uninitiated nor practices what many of Wordsworth’s foremost critics identify as the alchemy by which his most discussed poems successfully parlay “low and rustic” traditions into transcendent and universal truths that any reader can access without much contextual knowledge.6...

.... It is in this realm of the Gothic aesthetic that torture is transformed, through a process of metaphorical alchemy, into the signifier of the reading subject's strange enjoyment of horrid romance. No longer functioning as that which is inflicted upon the body of the criminal in an act of punitive retribution...