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John Öwre

Senior Lecturer

  • English Studies
  • Centre for Languages and Literature

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E-mail john.owreenglund.luse

Room SOL:H328a

Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund

Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 20

I am a senior lecturer in English Literature, with a particular research interest in British and other European literature of the Romantic period. I am particularly interested in the religious, philosophical and scientific dimensions of Romantic thought, the transition between Romanticism and modernism, as well as the various afterlives of Romantic thought in the postmodern era.

My doctoral thesis reexamined the treatment of sense perception in the works of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, arguing that the two poets' works can be seen as staging a dialogue between two mutually incompatible habits of perception, with Coleridge experiencing perception as metaphysically divisive and Wordsworth experiencing it as metaphysically unifying. I concluded that this dialogue represents a radical attempt to combine transcendent values with an intuitive connection to real objects, one that in many ways problematizes the conventional reading of Romanticism as an 'inward turn.'

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John Öwre

Senior Lecturer

  • English Studies
  • Centre for Languages and Literature

Contact information

E-mail john.owreenglund.luse

Room SOL:H328a

Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund

Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 20

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