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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

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“This book is an able, well-researched, engaging overview of alchemy, alchemical poetry, and exemplarity in medieval literature, primarily focusing, as its title would intimate, on English-language writings. … it’s an important contribution to the field and should serve up some new candidates for Middle English poetry syllabi.” (Eleanor Johnson, Speculum, Vol. 99 (4), October, 2024)

“Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry offers useful insights for scholars in a range of fields, most significantly for those interested in the complex literary valences of knowledge-making and transmission.” (Thomas Banbury, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January 7, 2024)

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This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the  exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Les mer
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This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the  exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and  exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem  The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.

Detaljer

Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Innbinding
Innbundet
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
205
ISBN
9783031266058
Utgivelsesår
2023
Format
21 x 15 cm

Om forfatteren

Curtis Runstedler AFHEA is an IRIS-funded (Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems) postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He was previously a Teach@Tübingen fellow with the Excellence Initiative at Tübingen University, Germany, and was awarded his PhD in Medieval Literature at Durham University, UK, in 2018.

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“This book is an able, well-researched, engaging overview of alchemy, alchemical poetry, and exemplarity in medieval literature, primarily focusing, as its title would intimate, on English-language writings. … it’s an important contribution to the field and should serve up some new candidates for Middle English poetry syllabi.” (Eleanor Johnson, Speculum, Vol. 99 (4), October, 2024)

“Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry offers useful insights for scholars in a range of fields, most significantly for those interested in the complex literary valences of knowledge-making and transmission.” (Thomas Banbury, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January 7, 2024)

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