The Poetics of Conversion: Number Symbolism and Alchemy in Gottfried's «Tristan»

by Julian N. Wasserman, Susan L Clark, Susan L. Clark

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 iconography lends credence to a reading in which the lovers are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3261020857
• ISBN13: 9783261020857
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 168 Pages