Chaucer the alchemist : physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination /: physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander N. Gabrovsky.
• Authors: Gabrovsky, Alexander N, 1984-
• Contents: PART I: PHYSICS; 1. Introduction: Chaucer's Sublunar Region of Mutable Forms; 2. Thought Experiments in Geffrey's Dream: The Poetics of <span style="font-style:italic;" >Motus Localis, Measurement, and Relativity in the <span style="font-style:italic;" >House of Fame ; PART II: ALCHEMY; 3. Alchemical Allegory and Transformative Action in the <span style="font-style:italic;" >Franklin's Tale ; 4. 'As licour out of a lambyc ful faste': Love and Alchemy in <span style="font-style:italic;" >Troilus and Criseyde ; PART III: LOGIC; 5. Counterfactual Conditionals in the Avian Debate:<span style="font-style:italic;" >Ars Obligatoria and Possible Worlds Semantics in the <span style="font-style:italic;" >Parliament of Fowls ; 6. Conclusion: Chaucer and the Reality of Change
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 821.1; Alchemy in literature; Science, Medieval, in literature; Medieval; General; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: general; Knowledge -- Science; Knowledge -- Alchemy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137523938
• Related ISBNs: 113752393X; 9781137541345
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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