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In Europe, during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, questions that occupied the minds of the scientists and philosophers in characterizing the universe as a whole were those which related to a concept of infinity in time and space. New theories on gravity, motion, ext…

This interdisciplinary study in comparative literature reconceptualizes hypnosis as an aesthetic activity in light of the phenomenology of novel reading, literary theory, and narrative ethics. It begins by tracing the history of hypnotism in the medical literature, from Mesmer, …