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UNINA9910683346903321 |
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Autore |
Runstedler Curtis |
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Titolo |
Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature / / by Curtis Runstedler |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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9783031266065 |
9783031266058 |
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[1st ed. 2023.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 pages) |
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The New Middle Ages, , 2945-5944 |
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Literature, Medieval |
Philosophy, Medieval |
Europe - History - 476-1492 |
Poetry |
Medieval Literature |
Medieval Philosophy |
History of Medieval Europe |
Poetry and Poetics |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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