Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 25-57.
- Description
- Assesses alchemy as a verbal and social practice in Chaucer's day, arguing that alchemical discourse raised with particular intensity the problem of the verbal representation of truth; alchemical study helped undermine the clerical monopoly on learning. In CYPT, Chaucer represents "modern" awareness of subjectivity in the face of the determinants of language and society.
- Alternative Title
- Biennial Chaucer Lecture, the New Chaucer Society, Eighth International Congress, 1-4 August 1992, University of Washington, Seattle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.