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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2025, 11:09 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"A magnificent edition of the Splendor Solis for all those interested in alchemy, magic and mysterious manuscripts. Popularly attributed to the legendary figure Salomon Trismosin, the Splendor Solis ('Splendour of the Sun') is the most beautiful alchemical manuscript ever made, with 22 fabulous illustrations rich in allegorical and mystical symbolism"
Leaf-through of:
https://rb.gy/9i06my
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| Alchemy, the Liber aureus, and the Erotics of Knowledge |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-11-2025, 01:54 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Medieval alchemy was an overwhelmingly masculine practice, and its instruction books reflect the exclusivity of its practitioners. This article examines the use of secrecy and masculine discourse in a sixteenth-century Latin alchemical handbook, the Liber aureus, to demonstrate that there exists an erotically charged tension between authors and their readers. Alchemical instruction books like the Liber aureus draw upon this tension in the service of a particular kind of gatekeeping that creates hierarchies of both knowledge and alchemical practitioners. By investigating secrecy and its provocative effects both within and beyond this manuscript, I argue that alchemical instruction books’ secretive encoding of scientific practice simultaneously works to maintain an inherently masculine erotics of knowledge and serves as an intentionally double-edged rhetorical strategy. These methods of occlusion, which frustrate attempts at hermeneutical closure, are meant to educate the initiated and exclude the uninformed, but they also strive to consolidate an idea of “alchemists” as an identifiable masculinist category centered around access to knowledge within a larger spectrum of scientific power and authority."
Kersti Francis
https://www.academia.edu/95316880/Alchem..._Knowledge
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| A History of the Surrealist Novel |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025, 01:12 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel."
Chapter 14 deals with Alchemical Narratives:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs...79FDED3283
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