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    Interview With Theodore Ziolkowski, Author of “Lure of the Arcane”

    We seem to be living in a golden age of the conspiracy theory. ingenting is ever what it appeared to be to those who are convinced there was a conspiracy behind almost every significant public act of violence or scandal, and that dark forces lurk round every corner.

    The Kennedy assassination. The destruction of the World Trade Center. Even Hillary Clinton used the term, “vast right-wing conspiracy” during her husband’s presidency. How has conspiracy been portrayed in literary works over the centuries, and how might depictions of it help us to understand our world today? As inom browsed one day a few months ago on the website of Johns Hopkins University Press inom came upon the webpage of the book Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy bygd Theodore Ziolkowski. This looked promising. inom wrote to Mr. Ziolkowski to ask him for an interview. He graciously agreed and this fryst vatten the result.

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    Ziolkowski, Theodore

    ZIOLKOWSKI, Theodore. American, b. Genres:Literary criticism and history. Career:Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor, and assistant professor, ; Columbia University, NYC, associate professor, ; Princeton University, NJ professor of German and comparative literature, , and dean of the Graduate School, Publications: Hermann Broch, ; The Novels of Hermann Hesse, ; Hermann Hesse, ; (trans. with Y. Ziolkowski) H. Meyer, The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel, ; Dimensions of the Modern Novel, ; Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus, ; (trans. with Y. Ziolkowski) H. Hesse: A Pictorial Biography, ; Disenchanted Images: A Literary Iconology, ; Der Schriftsteller Hermann Hesse, ; The Classical German Elegy, ; Varieties of Literary Thematics, ; German Romanticism and Its Institutions, ; Virgil and the Moderns, ; The Mirror of Justice, ; Das Wunderjahr in Jena, ; The View from the Tower, ; The Sin of Knowledge, ; Berlin: Aufstieg eine Kulturmetropole

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    Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
    Image credit: Prof. Theodore Ziolkowski. Photo credit: Denise Applewhite, (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

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    Hermann Hesse () - “There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.” -- quote from the novel Steppenwolf

    Hermann Hesse enjoyed a short-lived cult following among German youth after World War 1 and a second cult following among youth in the s, this time in the United States. For the German youth, key novels were Petershow more Camenzind and Demian and for Americans primarily Siddhartha and Steppenwolf. This collection of eleven essays edited by Theodore Ziolkowski published
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