Titre :

The literary distortions of alchemy

Auteur(s) :

Joly, Bernard [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Éditeur(s) ou directeur(s) scientifique(s) :

Margareth Hagen and Margery Vibe Skagen

Titre de l’ouvrage :

Literature and Chemistry. Elective Affinities

Éditeur :

Aarhus University Press

Lieu de publication :

Aarhus

Date de publication :

2013

ISBN :

978-87-7124-174-7

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

alchemy
chemistry
Hawthorne
Meyrink
Yourcenar

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie

Résumé en anglais : [en]

The historian of science is often surprised by representations of alchemists found in novels in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These strange and fascinating characters, often endowed with supernatural powers, offer ...
Lire la suite >The historian of science is often surprised by representations of alchemists found in novels in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These strange and fascinating characters, often endowed with supernatural powers, offer a very interesting description which do not seem to correspond to what the alchemists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries really were. By drawing on three examples (The scarlet letter by Nathaliel Hawthorne, The angel at the western window by Gustav Meyrink and L’oeuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar), I would like to analyse the causes and effects of these distortions which contributed to forge a modern and unreal image of alchemy.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL