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Poetics of Conversion: Number Symbolism and Alchemy in Gottfried's Tristan by Susan L. Clark, Julian N. Wasserman (Paperback, 1977)

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This study approaches the question of the relationship of the part to the whole in a literary work, as evidenced in the theme and structure of medieval romance, and instantiates the problem through an examination of how the number symbolism and alchemical imagery in Gottfried's Tristan support the anti-social thrust of the romance. Awareness of the implications of Gottfried's literary icography lends credence to a reading in which the lovers are evaluated positively, while King Mark and Cornish society are viewed negatively; the quantifiers one and three appear in descriptions of the lovers and those who would aid them, and the numbers two and four are used in portrayals of society. Similarly, metals high on the alchemical scale of value are used to describe the lovers, while strategic references to base metals in the text mirror society's attempt to debase the lovers.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Ag
ISBN-10
3261020857
ISBN-13
9783261020857
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107254383

Product Key Features

Author
Susan L. Clark, Julian N. Wasserman
Format
Paperback
Language
English, English & German, German
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook

Additional Product Features

Series Part/Volume Number
V. 7
Series Title
Utah Studies in Literature & Linguistics
Date of Publication
01/12/1977
Country of Publication
Switzerland

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