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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 218–236.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and the corporeal metals and minerals of the city are woven through the tale as guardians of the spaces and riches therein, and as tellers of the tale of the City of Brass that the protagonists encounter. alchemy Arabian Nights Lapidario Morisco literature aljamiado Copyright © 2023...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 298–300.
Published: 01 January 2010
... deals with the alchemy of human souls. On a smaller scale, Riffaterre's office, with its strange and disquieting lighting and walls of books, emanated a similar atmosphere: at once typical and singular. But on the day I set myself to finally cleaning it out, the office was bright and open; Amsterdam...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 127–145.
Published: 01 January 2013
... and rationalist of the literary modernity of which Robert Pinget found himself a contemporary, homosexuality and spirituality were seen to constitute two forms of deviance that the latter's work undertook to simultaneously express and hide. His taste for occult mysticism and for the tradition of alchemy running...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 115–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Ades Dawn . “ We Who Have Neither Church nor Country: César Moro and Surrealism .” In Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo Muerto , 15 – 40 . Los Angeles : Getty , 2012 . Atkin Will . “ Crystalline Thought: Alchemy and ‘Visionary Mineralogy’ in the Writings of André Breton...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 465–481.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of contingent relationships is effected "through the alchemy of consecration" whereby the individual is symbolically constituted as a relative "or as a knight, an heir, an elder, etc." 57 In light of this remark, it is striking to see that La Fete de Belesbat features the consecration of Voltaire, chosen...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 427–444.
Published: 01 November 2002
... to refer to the transformation taking place in the poet's soul, he also utilizes terms from alchemy to identify how these changes take place. In "L'Alchimie de la douleur," for example, the poet proudly exclaims to his beloved that "pour toi je change l' or en fer et Ie paradis en enfer" (77, 11. 9-10...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 May 2023
... answer that brings us back to Blanchot and Arendt, and specifically to the act of writing and the idea of solitude being a productive way out (writing oneself out) of loneliness—a way of stepping into language’s beautiful strangeness and discovering, as if through some work of alchemy, that it has...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 83–104.
Published: 01 January 2013
... like the "everyday miracle," or alchemy, of poetic creation-an early instance of what the praxis of THE UTOPIAN BODY IN RIMBAUD most representative in the Rimbaldian corpus, presumably for its complex, overdetermined admixture of aesthetics and politics; of gentle caricature, tenderness, and anger...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., alchemy, astrology, medicine, and magic. There are over 130 extant Latin manuscripts dated before 1330 as well as translations into several vernacular languages and into Hebrew (Williams 1–7, 31–35, 367–417; Gaullier-Bougassas, Fascination 3:1279–82). 8. This origin story is discussed prominently...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... While Du Chesne is better known as a practitioner of Paracelsian alchemy and medicine, recommending chemical cures for many illnesses, “his basic discussion of nutrition and foodstuffs is otherwise not very different from those of other dietaries” (Albala 42). What is different in Du Chesne’s work...
