Alchemization of the Mind

Contents: Sandy Feinstein: Refiguring Alchemy in the Canon's Yeoman's Tale - Liliana Barakonska: 'Compounds Strange' and 'Confused Lumps'. A Reading of Monstrosity - Nancy Nobile: Rousseau and Pedagogical Alchemy - Gwee Li Sui: Apocalypse and Apocatastasis: Perhaps, the Reformation According to Adolf von Harnack - Steven J. Joyce: The Dissociation of Discourse: Art, Transcendence, and Alchemization in Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters - Piotr Dziedzic: The Empire of Mind: The Theme of Dissociation in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow - Helmut F. Pfanner: Alfred Döblin and/or Thomas Mann? German Novelists at the Crossroads - Aleksandra Kieltucka: 'Surprise and Pleasure' or the Reader on the Hook - One Reader's Journey through the Fiction of John Hawkes - Leszek Drong: The Reader as Alchemist: Nietzschean Philology and Reader-Oriented Criticism - Agnieszka Golda: Longing for an Impossible Freedom. The Author and the Puppeteer. The Authorial Double in Postmodern Fiction - Ewa Macura: Bodily Dissociations: (In)Visibility and Distance in Oscar Wilde's Salomé - John Gilliver/Malgorzata Nitka: Sensibility Destabilized. Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912-13 - Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski: Trains and Beasts. On American Regional Writing - Joanna Smiech: Facing Postcolonial Reality: Ngugi's The River Between.

The Editors: Zbigniew Bialas 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.