Alchemy and exemplary poetry in Middle English literature / Curtis Runstedler.
Runstedler, Curtis, author.
2023
PR311
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Title Alchemy and exemplary poetry in Middle English literature / Curtis Runstedler.
Author Runstedler, Curtis, author.
ISBN 9783031266065 (electronic bk.)
3031266064 (electronic bk.)
9783031266058
3031266056
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26606-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-26606-5 doi
Call Number PR311
Dewey Decimal Classification 821.109337
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 5, 2023).
Series New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)), 2945-5944
Available in Other Form Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
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Introduction: Alchemy and Exemplarity
Chapter 1: A Brief History of Alchemy
Chapter 2: Alchemy and Labor in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Chapter 3: Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Chapter 4: John Lydgate and the Alchemical Churl and the Bird
Chapter 5: Merlin and the Queen of Elves: Alchemical Dialogues in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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