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Holy Ghosts: Romantic Asceticism and Its Figural Phantoms

Carroll, Anna (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

This dissertation reconsiders sacred tropes in the Romantic poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and John Keats within the context of ascetic performances and written saints’ lives. I argue that reading these poets ...
Novalis, Nietzsche, and the Rhetoric of Enchantment

Mottram, Robert (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

This work reopens the question of Nietzsche’s relationship to Early German Romanticism through critical readings of moments of enchantment in the writings of Novalis. It unveils the seemingly conciliatory gestures of ...