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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (The New Middle Ages) by Curtis Runstedler is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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 fo
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- Author
- Curtis Runstedler
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783031266058
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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