Chaucer the alchemist : physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination /: physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination. ([2015])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Chaucer the alchemist : physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination /: physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination. ([2015])
- Main Title:
- Chaucer the alchemist : physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination
- 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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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.35173
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