""The transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human." With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engageme…
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne’s Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem as one of the most vital and energetic of Donne’s canon. Siobhán Collins appraises…
Le docteur Héraclius Gloss, considéré comme le plus grand savant de la cité de Balançon, découvre un manuscrit traitant de réincarnation. Absorbé par l'étude de ce document, il se marginalise, s'éloigne des hommes, se rapproche des bêtes. Objet de la vindicte populaire, on le mè…