Thesis: A literary approach to four early alchemical texts

[Paul Ferguson]

"Experimentation does not seem restricted to technical operations: these writings are themselves experiments that result in elaborate and inventive compositions. I investigate in detail what this shift to a literary interpretation entails for four early alchemical works, namely the Letter from Isis to Horus (Chapter I), the Dialogue of the Philosophers and Cleopatra (Chapter II), On the Letter Omega by Zosimus of Panopolis (Chapter III), and Memoirs 10-12 by the same author (Chapter IV). Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the work’s dating, transmission, and contents, followed by an analysis of how each writing in question approaches conventional textual forms in both expected and unexpected ways."

F Lopes da Silveira


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