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Gaddis, Christopher Stephen. "Diatom Alchemy." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7611.

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This work resulted in the development of multiple distinct and novel methods of cheaply producing large numbers of biologically derived, complex, 3-dimensional microstructures in a multitude of possible compositions. The biologically derived structures employed in this work were diatoms, a type of single celled algae, which grow complex silica shells in species-specific shapes. Due to the wide diversity of naturally occurring diatom shapes (on the order of 105), and the flexibility in tailoring chemical compositions using the methods developed here, real potential exists for cheaply mass-producing industrially relevant quantities of controlled shape and size 3-d particles for the first time. The central theme of this research is the use of diatoms as a transient scaffold onto which a coating is applied. After curing the coating, and in some cases firing the coating to form ceramic, the diatom can be selectively etched away leaving a free standing replica of the original structure with the salient features of the pre-form intact, but now composed of a completely different material. Using this concept, specific methods were developed to suit various precursors. Dip coating techniques were used to create epoxy diatoms, and silicon carbide diatoms. The Sol-Gel method was used to synthesize zirconia diatoms in both the tetragonal and monoclinic phases. A multi step method was developed in which previously synthesized epoxy diatoms were used as a template for deposition of a silicon carbide precursor and then heat treated to produce a silicon carbide/carbon multi-component ceramic. A hydrothermal reaction was also developed to convert Titania diatoms to barium titanate by reaction with barium hydroxide. Finally, the device potential of diatom-derived structures was conclusively demonstrated by constructing a gas sensor from a single Titania diatom. Under suitable conditions, the sensor was found to have the fastest response and recovery time of any sensor of this type reported in the literature. Furthermore, this work has laid the groundwork for the synthesis of many other tailored compositions of diatoms, and provided several compositions for device creation.

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Short, Anna. "Tender Alchemy." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555718320899574.

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Darwin, Emma Lucie. "A Secret Alchemy." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/22668/.

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Secret Alchemy consists of my novel, A Secret Alchemy, and a critical commentary on the process and context of writing it. The novel reimagines the world of Elizabeth Woodville (14377-1492), the mother of the Princes in the Tower, and her brother Anthony Woodville (1442?-1483). In their voices, it tells their story from childhood, through Anthony's murder by Richard III and the disappearance of the Princes, to Elizabeth's old age. These two narrative strands intertwine with a third: Una Pryor, a modern bibliographer, is researching the Woodvilles' books. As she tries to save the family printing business, secrets, loves and rivalries from her own past reawaken, and interact with her experience of the Woodville!story, culminating in her realisation that to bring the Woodvilles alive she must write them as fiction. The commentary explores the particular issues which arise in fiction which is based on real historical figures, starting from the process of writing the novel but also embracing critical and theoretical issues and the work of other novelists. Following a discussion ofthe complex relationship of such fiction to the historical record, it examines how parallel narrative fiction such as A Secret Alchemy embodies that relationship. It then looks at voice, whose role as both medium and message makes questions of historical authenticity particularly complex. Finally these questions are brought together in discussing historical fiction as storytelling, in the context of narrative theory. Atwood states that it is in fiction that individual and collective memory and experience come together; the commentary proposes that historical fiction is unique in how it does so, by virtue of its double-duality: 'not only then, but also now,' and 'not only fiction but also history'. A Secret Alchemy was written under contract to Headline Review and it incorporated editorial changes, some of which are discussed here. It was published in November 2008, and in the US by Harper Perennial in June 2009.

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Meitzner, Bettina Libavius Andreas. "Die Gerätschaft der chymischen Kunst der Traktat "De sceuastica artis" des Andreas Libavius von 1606 : Übersetzung, Kommentierung und Wiederabdruck /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ad_aAAAAMAAJ.

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Judge, Andrew. "Alchemy in the atomic age." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Soderberg, Nanda. "The Alchemy of the Everyday." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/665.

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Everyday objects inspire and inform what I do. The personal histories and associations we may have with ordinary things are of great personal interest to me. Often times, these items reflect the social class, education, and background of the owners. I am drawn to these objects and the possibility of elevating them in a way that transcends their implied meanings (their worth, importance, and status). The transformation of the mundane is a method of working that allows associations to remain intact while bringing new meaning and perspective to the object. My method of working becomes an alchemic process aimed at turning the ordinary into "art" which is second only to turning used cooking oil into fuel to run your car, and maybe third to turning lead into gold.

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Yoo, Daniel. "Alchemy -- Transmuting base specifications into implementations." Worcester, Mass. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2008. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-022609-151429/.

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Toor, Kiran. "Coleridge's chrysopoetics : alchemy, authorship, and imagination." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2007. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1616.

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This thesis is an attempt to assess the creative potential of alchemy as a master trope in Coleridge's conception of authorship and imagination. It begins with a challenge to the idea that an autonomous author is at the centre of a literary work. This idea is crucial to the reception of literature and to the way in which concepts of "originality" and "authorship" are typically understood. Against this marking out of an author as a singular, autonomous, and uniquely privileged "self', I posit that, for Coleridge, authorship occurs in a transformative or alchemical interspace between the desire for self-expression and the necessarily other-determined nature of creativity. Offering an alternative trajectory for the author, Coleridge elaborates an imaginative strategy in which the dislocation of the selffrom itself is the truest path to self-expression, and the author must become other in order to become morefully himself. Demonstrating a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, this thesis suggests that alchemy, better than any other system, accounts for Coleridge's propensity for plagiarism and for an aesthetic of artifice. In an attempt to trace Coleridge's familiarity with Hermetic and alchemical discourses throughout his life, it has been necessary to review works as varied as those of Plato, Marsilio Ficino, Ralph Cudworth, Jacob Boehme, Herman Boerhaave, and F. W. J. Schelling. I then suggest how Coleridge appropriates alchemical terminology to his own aesthetic and imaginative ends. Unable to resolve the desire for aesthetic autonomy with the impossibility of asserting the self in one's own voice, the thesis posits that Coleridge "plays" in the hermeneutic interspace between selfhood and otherness, creativity and counterfeit, authority and artifice, in order to arrive at an entirely unique strategy of alchemical self-exposition. Arriving at authorial selfhood through the odyssey of alterity, Coleridge's "play"giarisms, in this view, do not violate the principles of originality, but redefine them. The thesis ends with a consideration of the necessarily negotiated fiction of all acts of imagination and authorship.

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Yoo, Daniel. "Alchemy: Transmuting Base Specifications into Implementations." Digital WPI, 2009. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/168.

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Alloy specifications are used to define lightweight models of systems. We present Alchemy, which compiles Alloy specifications into implementations that execute against persistent databases. Alchemy translates a subset of Alloy predicates into imperative update operations, and it converts facts into database integrity constraints that it maintains automatically in the face of these imperative actions. In addition to presenting the semantics and an algorithm for this compilation, we present the tool and outline its application to a non-trivial specification. We also discuss lessons learned about the relationship between Alloy specifications and imperative implementations.

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Lamb, Elizabeth T. "The Alchemy of Space: A Translation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490701723931841.

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Rampling, Jennifer Margaret. "The alchemy of George Ripley, 1470-1700." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283865.

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Archer, Jayne Elisabeth Euphemia. "Women and alchemy in early modern England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272292.

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Beighle, Kory A. "Architectural Alchemy: Collaging Disciplinarity in the Kaleidoscopic." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613746018289784.

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Clyburn, Gay M. "Literary alchemy : Raymond Chandler's unintended harmonic convergence /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Hooks, Alicia R. "The Alchemy of Sustaining New Business Ventures." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7808.

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The high failure rates of new business ventures (NBV) negatively affect employment and potential contributions to the economic health of communities. The high NBV failure rate is essential, as NBV sustainability influences job creation and increases employment rates in communities surrounding the NBV. The purpose of this qualitative single case study, using the effectuation conceptual framework, was to explore strategies organization leaders in the state of Missouri used for sustaining NBV operations beyond 5 years. The sample consisted of 6 NBV consultants from a single Missouri NBV consulting firm who have sustained NBVs beyond 5 years. The 6 NBV consultants answered standardized open-ended questions via semistructured interviews. Documentation served as a second data collection source. Data analysis included Yin's 5-step process, a thematic analysis by coding interview text, reducing themes based on redundancies, and combining common themes. The data revealed mindset as a meta-strategy and included three subordinate themes of knowledge-based strategies, network strategies, and systems strategies. The findings from this study can benefit NBV consultants and managers to assess mindset strategies as a foundation for developing subordinate sustainability strategies. The implications for positive social change include the potential for generating tax revenues to strengthen communities and increase support of quality education, contributions to infrastructure and public service expansions, and collaborations for community partnerships.

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Lemaitre-Provost, Solange, and Jean ca 1455-1530 Perréal. "Édition critique de La complainte de nature [1516]." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83119.

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This thesis is the first modern critical edition of La Complainte de Nature, a poem of alchemy written in middle French containing 1822 verses in the base manuscript. This work is divided in two parts: in the first, Nature presents her grievances to the alchemist so that he ceases his quest for the philosopher's stone by explaining to him that only she, Nature, can produce gold. In the second part, the alchemist promises to abandon his futile quest and to obey the laws of Nature. The accompanying text contains an introduction offering precisions about the author, the work, and its context; footnotes grouping together variants of two other manuscripts and of the first and last editions; and a general glossary containing specialized terms and some locutions, in addition to a table of proper nouns which will help to clarify some of the textual facts and to facilitate comprehension of the text.

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Schlener, Tara Elise. "The Meeting of Alchemy and Soul| An Awakening." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13806335.

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This thesis explores the healing effects of surrender to and trust in the alchemical nature of the psyche to produce psychospiritual transformation toward wholeness and wellbeing. Through alchemical hermeneutic, heuristic, and intuitive methodologies the research explores healing outcomes of merging with the divine through a relationship with a guru, consciously being in a love relationship, and engaging with astrology as alchemical processes that help to integrate unconscious content into consciousness. The author observes the alchemical process in the merging of heaven and earth, or cosmos and psyche, as it weaves through her own life. She tracks the alchemy through which an interpersonal love relationship and encounters with the guru Mata Amritanandamayi produced both physical and emotional healing. The thesis also explores the psychotherapeutic use of astrology and suggests ways to integrate experiences of the divine, interpersonal love, and one's astrological chart into psychotherapy to support healing and movement toward wholeness.

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Runstedler, Curtis Thomas. "Alchemy and exemplary narrative in Middle English poetry." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12593/.

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This thesis examines the role of alchemy in Middle English poetry from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, particularly how these poems present themselves as exemplary narratives to raise moral points about human behaviour, fallibility, and alchemical experimentation. The introduction suggests the compatibility between the emergence of the vernacular exemplum and the development of alchemical practice and literature in late medieval England. I follow J. Allan Mitchell’s ‘ethics of exemplarity’ for reading the alchemical poems in this study, extending his reading of Middle English poetry to understand the exemplary and ethical values of alchemy in poetry, which in turn helps the reader to understand the good of alchemical examples in medieval literature. Reading these alchemical poems as exemplary reassesses the role of alchemy in medieval literature and provides new ways of thinking about the exemplum as a literary framework or device in Middle English poems containing alchemy. The first chapter of this dissertation examines the history of alchemy in the classical world, particularly its connection to metallurgical techniques and early theoretical developments, through to its transmission into the Arabic world before reaching late medieval Europe. The second chapter continues this history, focussing on the development of alchemy in medieval England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. I examine the importance and impact of several key alchemical figures or poets who write about alchemy including Roger Bacon, William Langland, Thomas Norton, and George Ripley, as well as discussing the legal and societal responses to alchemical practice in England. These chapters contextualise the role of alchemy in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry, and explore the growing interest in writing vernacular alchemical poetry. The third chapter concentrates on John Gower’s use of alchemy in the Confessio amantis, in which it is presented as a model for ideal yet unattainable labour. Following R.F. Yeager’s reading of Gower’s ‘new exemplum’ in the Confessio amantis ̧ I suggest that Gower’s alchemical section follows this new, emerging style of vernacular exemplary writing and can also be read on its own as an exemplary narrative, which recognises alchemical failure as a post-lapsarian decline and a sign of human shortcomings. In the fourth chapter, I examine Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, linking it to Gower’s use of the ‘new exemplum’ in the previous chapter to show how alchemy can be used within an exemplary framework to make points about moral blindness and human fallibility. The Canon’s Yeoman’s unreliability and dubious nature as a narrator suggest Chaucer’s subversion of the exemplary format, yet he still uses alchemy and exemplary narrative for moral purposes. The fifth chapter of this dissertation examines an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s The Churl and the Bird found in Harley MS 2407. Following Joel Fredell’s reading of the poem and Mitchell’s exemplary reading of Lydgate’s poem, I discuss the anonymous author’s use of alchemy as subject matter within the poem, particularly its presentation as an exemplum and how these added alchemical stanzas affect its exemplary reading. The sixth and final chapter focusses upon two fifteenth-century Middle English alchemical dialogues: one between Morienus and Merlin, and the other between Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves. Through the dialogue form, the characters in these poems collaborate in their alchemical pursuits, forming the moral examples that are consistent throughout the works studied in this dissertation. These identify the ‘right path’ to moral well-being and healthy living as well as successful alchemical practice and experimentation.

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Downes, Christopher John P., of Western Sydney Nepean University, and of Performance Fine Arts and Design Faculty. "One square inch between the eyes : notions of alchemy." THESIS_FPFAD_XXX_Downes_C.xml, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/291.

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It became very obvious, during my research, that alchemy was much more than just aspects of practical metallurgy and much more relevant in terms of symbolic and psychic investigations into the significance of the unconscious mind, the individual and the journey to discover the 'centre.' I use the concept of alchemy as a means to explore the unknown mystery of existence, being and the inner self. 'One Square Inch Between the Eyes' is a phrase used by Taosists to describe that area of the body that contains the highest form of energy and is the centre of spiritual development and transformations. Important aspects of true alchemy appear through Taosist manifestations and is expressed by the unity of nature and humankind. It is seen as a principle of universal understanding and a means to get behind or within appearances. This thesis begins to inquire into aspects of how alchemical notions have developed, both on a practical and symbolic level and how both have impacted on our lives. In the research process, several definitions of alchemy have been identified together with how these definitions have been adopted culturally. I begin to look at areas of art and creativity, science and chemistry, medicine and illness and how people see these aspects of cultural necessities through alchemical concepts and notions.
Master of Arts (Hons) (Visual Arts)

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Downes, Christopher John P. "One square inch between the eyes : notions of alchemy /." View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030617.103208/index.html.

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Lembert, Alexandra. "The heritage of Hermes : alchemy in contemporary British literature /." Glienicke (Berlin) [u.a.] : Galda + Wilch, 2004. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018978.html.

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Leyva-Perez, Irina. "Alchemy and Symbolism in the Work of Carlos Estevez." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/740.

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The purpose of this thesis was to explore how alchemy has influenced Carlos Estevez’s work through a study of the symbolic repertoire and the philosophical concepts associated with it in his art, particularly how these are expressed in his artworks and how alchemy has evolved thematically in his oeuvre. The study of alchemy influenced this artist so deeply that even pieces that were not primarily inspired by this philosophical system show traces of it, essentially by representing the concept of transformation, crucial to understanding the alchemical process. This thesis is based on Carl Gustav Jung’s idea of metaphysical transformation as one of the main aspects of alchemy, and on his theory of active imagination as a tool to represent thoughts through artworks. Alchemy transformed Estevez’s art, and by extension the way he approaches life, making him conscious of the importance of transmutation and alchemical concepts.

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Teter, David Michael. "Computational Alchemy: The Rational Design of New Superhard Materials." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40510.

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First--principles electronic structure calculations have been performed to help identify and direct the synthesis of new superhard compounds. An improved figure of merit for hardness is identified and used to show that carbon nitrides are not likely to be harder than diamond.
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Han, Ching-Pei B. "3D alchemy : a guide to 3D realistic computer graphics /." Online version of thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11747.

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Darbonne, Sonia A. "Ecstatic alchemy John Donne and the matter of women /." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000107.

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Knight, Michele Therese. "Ways of Being: The alchemy of bereavement and communique." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13764.

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Communiqué experienced within the context of adult bereavement is a complex multi-layered intersubjective event. Occurring generally though not always at a time when the bereaved individual is in despair or suffering anguish at the death and absence of the person/s close to them who died, the phenomenon possesses the capacity to disrupt, at times profoundly so, the emotional, psychological and spiritual equilibrium of the experient. Intrinsic to the phenomenon is that it can educate and inform, reorientate or realign value and belief-systems, challenge notions and understandings of the self and its systems-relationship with the universe, illuminate and feed the mind and enrich the being. The social relevance of the study findings are significant because they highlight the potential of communiqué as a means of initiating a transpersonal paradigm shift, not just at an individual level but across broader social and cultural levels as well. The phenomenon has this potential because of its interrelatedness and interdependence with the experient, the visible social world in which the event occurs, and the universe. Additionally, communiqué as an idea extends an invitation to consider life and one’s participation in life not just from transpersonal perspectives and understandings, but from within a systems-context of non-linear, interconnecting and interdependent relationships. The research question the study answered was: What are the natures and meanings of communiqué between bereaved adults and the person/s close to them who died? The process of answering the research question has revealed that communiqué manifests as a flux in flowing linear time. This flux constitutes an intersection of material and non-material reality between embodied and disembodied individuals. The ensuing engagement between both is not only intersubjective; it is subjectively experienced by the embodied individual in that it is seeded into the mind and being as new knowledge and new thinking.

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Tomasic, Barbara. "An experiment in alchemy : directing Triumph of Love, The Musical." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53016.

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An Experiment in Alchemy: directing Triumph of Love, the musical explores my directorial practice and the challenges presented in staging Triumph of Love as part of the UBC Department of Theatre and Film’s season at the Frederic Wood Theatre, March 19 – April 4, 2015. As presented in the following pages my primary objective was to present a wholehearted, entertaining production of this rarely presented musical. My practice explored the process of directing musical theatre by placing equal weight on text, music and movement. I believe that when all three elements are explored equally in the process of a musical, the alchemy of these three elements can have transformational effect on the audience. I also examined the idea of artistic collaboration within the role of director. In doing this I was able to overcome some of my previous challenges and anxieties and re-discover my strengths and love for the practice of directing theatre. This thesis includes my director’s preparation of the script, the journal chronicling my production process, production photos and a chapter containing my reflections on the experience in its entirety.
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Grimes, Shannon L. "Zosimus of Panopolis Alchemy, nature, and religion in late antiquity /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.

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Jansen, Rhyno. "The alchemy of sound : creating unbelievable believability through audiovisual fusion." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6561.

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Thesis (MPhil (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis represents an attempt to explore the use of metadiegetic film sound and its connection with qualities displayed by human physiology. Metadiegesis is chosen as the focus of this study, in order to point out the potential of film sound to be representative and not to slavishly imitate its visual counterpart. Therefore, because metadiegetic sound is deictic in nature, the first hurdle to clear was to navigate through a terminological minefield, allowing a clear glimpse of its true meaning and its connection with the filmic image. The researcher attempts to create hypothetical scenarios in order to analyse and discuss metadiegetic examples from films, convincingly utilised and less-convincingly so. The intention was to understand, clarify and disambiguate terminological uncertainties and inaccuracies. An exploration of asynchronous metadiegetic sound follows as refinement of the first step. This is done by resorting to existing examples in the form of extracts from films for demonstration purposes. As a result, the use of metadiegetic film sound is clearly defined and its use explained by attaching it to three concepts: a ‘story within a story’, external story space, and internal representation. It is argued that through these concepts, sound can be amalgamated with image to create a different realm, where sound and image tell more than an audio-visual story.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis poog die navorser om die gebruik van “metadiegetic” film-klank, en die verband wat dit met die menslike fisiologie hou, te verken. “Metadiegesis” vorm dus die fokuspunt van die navorsingstuk. Hierdie fokus beklemtoon film-klank se verteenwoordigende potensiaal, en die feit dat dit nie net ŉ slaafse nabootsing van die visuele aspek van film is nie. Aangesien “metadiegetic” klank dus deikties van aard is, is die eerste uitdaging om ŉ weg te vind deur ŉ terminologiese mynveld. Dit word gedoen in ŉ poging op ŉ duidelike begrip van die ware betekenis van “metadiegesis” te ontwikkel, en om die verband wat film-klank met die visuele aspek van film het, duidelik te maak. Die navorser poog in die eerste plek om hipotetiese scenario’s te skep om sodoende “metadiegetic” voorbeelde in films te analiseer en te bespreek. Die doel is om terminologiese onsekerhede en dubbelsinnighede te verstaan en te verklaar. Dan volg die verkenning van asinchroniese “metadiegetic” klank as verfyning van die eerste stap. Dit word gedoen deur gebruik te maak van film-uittreksels ter verduideliking van die bogenoemde stappe. Na aanleiding hiervan, is die gebruik van metadiegetiese film-klank duidelik gedefinieer, en die toepassing daarvan gekoppel aan drie konsepte: ŉ “storie binne-in ŉ storie”, “eksterne storie ruimte” en “interne verteenwoordiging”. Deur middel van hierdie konsepte kan klank saamsmelt met beeld om ŉ ander dimensie te betree, waar klank en beeld meer vertel as ŉ oudiovisuele storie.

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Wade, Tom H. "Circulation of the Light: Mandalas, Alchemy, and Non-Linear Cinema." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors149441657291478.

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Cicola, Ilaria. "Alchemy and computer : a computational analysis of the Jabirian corpus." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5056/document.

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Cet élaborât veut donner un nouvel approche à l’étude du corpus jābirien, en prenant compte de la littérature et des études précédents et des problématiques inhérentes à ce particulier corpus (synonymie, polysémie, dispersion du savoir, citations d’autres auteurs, hypertextualité). Grace aux nouvelles technologies d’analyse computationnelle ce travail vise à la digitalisation de textes édités (Muḫtār Rasāʾil, Tabdīr al-iksīr al-aʿẓam, Kitāb al- ahjār), pour créer un corpus numérique annoté selon le Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), le système d’annotation le plus utilisé dans le Natural Language Processing (NLP). La première section de la thèse comprend une introduction historique, prenant compte de la figure de Jābir et de son travail, de la querelle sur son existence et de l’histoire de la science Arabe médiévale ; et méthodologique, qui explique les outils utilisés pour l’analyse. La deuxième section est opérationnelle : le travail est expliqué dans tous ses détails et où les choix de numérisation et analyse sont exposés. Les problématiques présentées dans la première section trouvent ici des réponses pour ce qui concerne leur analyse. Le noyau de ce travail est représenté cependant par les Appendices, divisées en quatre parties : Les Appendices A, B et C sont des extraits bruts de la numérisation, qui donnent une idée du processus d’annotation selon le standard TEI. Les trois textes édités sont représentés par le premier livre de l’édition. L’Appendice D est un échantillon de concordances qui se base sur la lemmatisation des deux premiers livres du Tadbīr. L’Appendice E est une liste de fréquence du même échantillon utilisé pour la création des concordances
This work presents a novel approach to the study of the Jābirian corpus while taking into consideration the existent works and literature and the problems of this peculiar corpus (synonymy, polysemy, dispersion of the knowledge, quotes od other authors, hypertextuality). Thanks to the modern technologies of computational analysis, this thesis aims to the digitalization of edited texts (Muḫtār Rasāʾil, Tabdīr al-iksīr al-aʿẓam, Kitāb al- ahjār) in order to create a digitalized corpus tagged following the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), the most used annotation in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Section I is an introduction on the historical setting and remarks of the subject of the texts studied, comprising also an excursus on the figure of Jābir Ibn Hayyān and the querelle on his existence; and an explanation of the methodological setting in which this work is settled. Section II is the operational part, where are shown the compromises used in the realization of the digitalized corpus, as well as the strategies used so as to render the various issues presented in Section I. Section II presents the set of choices that tried to aswer to the questions made in Section I. The core of the work is represented by the Appendices, divided in four parts: Appendix A, B and C are extracts of the digitalized corpus, it was decided to include the first section of all the three source books, in order to represent every detail of the digitalization strategies and processes. Appendix D comprise a sample of concordances based on the lemmatization of the edition of the first two books of the Tadbīr. Appendix E is the frequency list of the same sample used for the concordances

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Фарятьєв, І. Ю. "Сучасна алхімія." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/41345.

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У Віденському музеї історії мистецтв зберігається медаль з написом: «У липні місяці 1675 року я, доктор І.І. Бехер, отримав цю унцію найчистішого срібла зі свинцю шляхом алхімічної трансмутації». Існують подібні монети й описи шахрайств з ними. «Диму без вогню не буває», - говорить народна мудрість. Чи можлива трансмутація, тобто перетворення одних металів в інші?

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Ігнатьєва, О. І. "Алхімія: два підходи." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2008. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/14315.

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Gallagher, Geraldine. "The alchemy of college philanthropy| What dynamics inspire the transformational gift?" Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3614800.

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Modest inquiry exists to elucidate why donors make large contributions to community colleges. Of every charitable dollar donated to education, two-year colleges receive 2 to 4 cents. This grounded theory study included 30 major donors to 23 colleges in 18 states. The questions were comprehensive: why donors and how donors make major gifts; internal and external factors, and how they work together; important synergies for cultivation, invitation, and stewardship; and why contributors choose community colleges. Six themes emerged: family history and role modeling; relationships with the college and its leaders; the desire to make a meaningful difference; the institution's role as an economic driver; a wish to give back; and donor recognition tailored to each individual. Forty percent of donors who made six- and seven-figure gifts were never invited to contribute; these extraordinary donations were unsolicited. The findings also suggest myriad recommendations for practice. Opportunities and models exist for staff to understand what inspires each unique donor. Volunteers may engage through storytelling and activism. Connections can deepen through core mission work. Colleges may expand interaction with students and faculty through shared experiences. Nurturing close relationships with major benefactors may help to engage their circles of influence. Leaders should challenge the myth that alumni give only to universities. Involving families may result in allies today and contributors tomorrow. College retirees often are excellent prospects. Donors prefer personalized recognition. Professional advisers can serve as influencers, potential conduits, and roadblocks. The two-year college fiscal model speaks to bottom-line donors. And the crucial message? It pays to ask.

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Valussi, Elena. "Beheading the red dragon : a history of female alchemy in China." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398209.

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Casanova, Nora Celina. "Hell, Heaven and Alchemy in Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter" according to Gnosticism." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 2013. http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/5148.

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According to Gnosticism, the original sin which prompted man to be expelled from Heaven was the sin against the Holy Spirit. This offence would be strictly connected to sexuality, consisting mainly on fornication and adultery. The disobedient behavior towards the Lord’s Laws, then, made God banish sinners to a place where they should suffer until they could be redeemed by their own good deeds and saintly conduct. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main characters have to suffer the consequences of their sin and struggle against their own nature to achieve redemption and be purified.
Fil: Casanova, Nora Celina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

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Van, der Merwe Darren. "The Printer's Grey : alchemy, ritual and performance in fine art printmaking." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14093.

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Peter Zhang, in writing on the work of Deleuze and Guatarri, identifies what he calls Deleuzian minor rhetoric 1: namely the need to step outside of the major language and occupy the position of minority. This position of minority, which for Deleuze is a position of power, is achieved through the process of becoming, a constant state of mobility. In a sense this is one of the motivations for my project - understanding the language of printmaking I find myself invested in by considering the material qualities of printmaking as well as the process or act of printing through a number of visual forms. In order better to understand my own position within printmaking, I have used this project to explore the figure or persona of the printmaker and in doing so I am journeying towards the Deleuzian position of minority by questioning ways of thinking about print and the printmaker. This project is located within the fine arts practice of printmaking, but positions itself as an investigation of the liminal, in-between processes of printmaking in terms of alchemy and ritual through the figure of the printmaker. The project is everything in-between the initial idea for a print and the final product, a space I have come to refer to as The Printer's Grey. This reflects my own art-making methodology and my particular approach and thinking within printmaking, where my notebooks and proofs hold the same importance as the eventual printed product. These objects all reveal a creative process, which is flexible and shifting rather than one that merely renders an image in printed form. In drawing attention to the in-between processes during the act of making I assert both its instrumental role in the creation of the print as well as the importance of the process as a site of thinking through the visual. Specifically in relation to printmaking, The Printer's Grey speaks to and seeks to draw into the gallery space aspects of the in-studio process of making a print - aspects which often remain hidden when viewing a print.

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Dunlop, Douglas Donald. "The Desires of Rebecca Horn: Alchemy and the Mechanics of Interpretation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278016/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the use of alchemy within the work of Rebecca Horn, to elucidate its presence in her work, and to illuminate its purpose as a personal philosophy and as a creative tool. The use of alchemy within Horn's work occurs as a process of revelation and transformation. Alchemy is revealed as a spiritual philosophy and as an interpretative system through the changes that occur in Horn's oeuvre. Throughout Horn's career, alchemy has developed into an interpretive system, a type of spiritual and cosmic perspective, that allows the artist to study, access, and meld diverse realities (sacred and profane) and diverse social systems (religious and scientific) into a more holistic and spiritually infused reality for herself and society-at-large. The purpose of her work is to help reinvest contemporary life with a spiritual presence by offering a model and a means of bringing the sacred into the profane.

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McSorley, Charles P. "Forming A Culinary Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9662.

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Architecture seeks to find harmony between pragmatics and poetics through phenomenological relationships of tectonics, placement, and culture. The choreography of these events, both physical and metaphysical,leads to a depth in the art of place making. The act of building in a certain way or attitude is read as aphorism – the statement imbedded in the physical existence of a construction is manifest in the way which its existence is made. We (civilization) make both out of physical need and desire,the question in art is whether our motive is purely physical or becomes spiritual. How is institution achieved? What defines place and how is it made? Does tradition bind us to the past or is it the freedom to inform the present and beyond ?
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Padaratz, Pricilla. ""But oh, I could it not refine": Lady Hester Pulter's Textual Alchemy." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35544.

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Hester Pulter addresses personal and spiritual transformation in a unique way. The elusive nature of alchemical language allows Pulter to express the incomplete, ongoing process of internal transformation, with all its difficulties and inconsistencies. By means of a rich alchemical lexicon, Pulter stresses suffering rather than consolation, conflict rather than reconciliation, and lack of resolution rather than closure in her poetry. She repeatedly tries to see a divine order in earthly suffering, but she insists upon this suffering, and she often argues for a gendered element to this pain, particularly as a mother grieving her dead children. The lack of resolution we see in Pulter's writing pushes against conventional constructions of the ideal female Christian as passively accepting God's plan, and shows the limits of the religious lyric to truly provide consolation. My thesis will extend the discussion of Pulter's use of alchemical imagery and symbols in her poetry, and will argue that she uses alchemical language to reflect how transformation and healing are never, in fact, fully achieved during our physical existence. The promise of literary alchemy as a vehicle for transformation and spiritual regeneration is not always fulfilled in Pulter's work.

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Silva, Michelle Ramona. "Digital alchemy matter and metamorphosis in contemporary digital animation and interface design /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2005. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3224047.

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Chen, Jou-An. "Airship, Automaton, and Alchemy: A Steampunk Exploration of Young Adult Science Fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7423.

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Steampunk first appeared in the 1980s as a subgenre of science fiction, featuring anachronistic technologies with a veneer of Victorian sensibilities. In recent years steampunk has re-emerged in young adult science fiction as a fresh and dynamic subgenre, which includes titles such as The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross, The Hunchback Assignment by Arthur Slade, and Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. Like their predecessors, these modern steampunk novels for teens use retrofuturistic historiography and innovative mechanical aesthetics to dramatize the volatile relationship between man and technology, only in these novels the narrative is intentionally set in the context of their teen protagonist's social and emotional development. However, didactic conventions such as technophobia and the formulaic linearity of the bildungsroman narrative complicate and frustrate steampunk's representation of adolescent formation. Using case studies of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia, retrofuturism and technological hybridity are presented as defining features of steampunk that subvert young adult science fiction's technophobic and liberal humanist traditions. The dirigible and the automaton are examined as the quintessential tropes of steampunk fiction that reproduce the necessary amphibious quality, invoking new expressions and understanding of adolescent growth and identity formation that have a distinctly utopian, nostalgic, and ecocentric undertone.

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Forshaw, Peter Jonathan. "Ora Et Labora : alchemy, magic and cabala in Heinrich Khunrath's 'Amphitheatrum Sapientiae'." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409743.

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Clements, John. "The intellectual and social declines of alchemy and astrology, circa 1650-1720." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20821/.

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By the early decades of the eighteenth century alchemy and astrology had ceased to be considered respectable or credible by elite society. Astrology had been removed from university curricula, while alchemy largely ceased to be publicly practised by the educated and respected and became regarded by those of elite status to be little more than a tool for charlatans or quacks. This thesis draws out these twin declines and considers them in parallel, focusing on trying to analyse what changed intellectually and socially within England to so dramatically alter the fates of these arts. There is a scholarly tradition which has discussed the declines of alchemy and astrology as part of a broader notion of a decline in ‘occult practices’ or ‘magic’, an idea which is often twinned with the wider notion of a ‘rise of science’. This thesis will therefore consider alchemy and astrology as connected arts, which nevertheless possessed separate identities, and then analyse these arts’ declines alongside each other. Through this process it will explore to what degree and in what ways one can describe the declines of these arts as part of one unified trend, or if one needs to interpret these declines as purely grounded in their own unique circumstances. By utilising the works of alchemical and astrological practitioners and placing the decline of these arts in a longer historical context this thesis studies what those who practised the arts considered to be their core conceptual components and will therefore analyse how these elements were changed or challenged by intellectual developments that occurred in the second half of the seventeenth century. This is coupled with a wider analysis of academic and literary works which discussed these arts, which will be used to consider their social positions and how the events across the period in question affected and shaped perceptions of alchemy and astrology and their acceptability to early modern people.

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Wen, Bihe. "Sonic "Alchemy": An Original Composition for Piano and Electronics with Critical Essay." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248402/.

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This paper presents the history and the theoretical study of mixed music and focuses on two piano solo works and two mixed electroacoustic compositions for piano and electronics. By discussing the working process and giving the analysis of the original composition Alchemy for piano and electronics, this paper investigates the relationship between cause, source and spectromorphology, reflecting how the concept of energy-motion trajectory are embodied in this mixed electroacoustic work. Alchemy is a mixed composition for piano solo and 8-channel fixed electronics focusing on the gestural play and sonic expression. The live piano part explores the gestural sound played with a slide (cup), paper clip, and objects placed inside the piano. The 8-channel electronics part is mainly derived from the recorded acoustic piano. It extends the sonic potential of source materials and presents the diverse vectorial movements of spatialization.

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Valussi, Elena. "Beheading the red dragon a history of female inner alchemy in China /." Diss., Online version, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.398209.

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Liu, Xun. "In search of immortality Daoist inner alchemy in early twentieth century China /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2001. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3054773.

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SCHAFFARCZYK, MCHALE SAARA. "AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: Traversing the Self through Images, Objects and Alchemy." Thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20107.

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Larson, Heidi Elaine. ""Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues": To Tree Or Not To Tree." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1768.

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The subjects of grief and of the afterlife are ones that have been discussed and analyzed for centuries, with no conclusive answers as to where we go or how we should go on. In “Alchemy of Desire/ Dead Man’s Blues”, Caridad Svich continues this discussion through a narrative, centered around a group of women dealing with the aftermath of a loss. She uses the term alchemy as an allegory for one’s ability to transcend and transform, and in turn, come to know the meaning of life…and death. This paper serves as a documentation of the SIUC Theater Department’s process and results in bringing this conversation to the stage, and this story to life.

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Rich, Sarita Clara. "Reviving the Latent Content of Alchemy in William Shakespeare's Othello." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2720.

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While many of Shakespeare's alchemical allusions are noted for their language of positive regeneration and healing, the playwright's departures from these conventional uses of alchemy deserve further attention. This essay presents an examination of inversions in the redemptive alchemical paradigm of Othello, a play whose connections to alchemy are not announced by obvious references to gold making, the philosopher's stone, or other key terms relating to the discourse of the opus that a modern audience is likely to recognize. I argue that in Othello, alchemical allusions are more subtly deployed in the language that describes Othello and Desdemona's marriage, in the metaphorical speech of Othello's self-doubt, in Desdemona's characterization, and in Iago's references to medicine. My reading of the alchemical context of the play shows the following: Othello and Desdemona's marriage, a figurative manifestation of the hermaphroditic union in which man and woman consistently appear as equals, counters representations of patriarchal dominance in the early modern period; Othello's capacity for rhetorically gifted expression remains intact instead of disintegrating, as evidenced by the alchemical metaphors in his lamentations of the "loss" of Desdemona's purity; Desdemona's role in the tragedy is illuminated by her characterization which is reminiscent of dual Mercury; and Iago's own alchemical language offers insight into his role as the instigator of tragic events. Taken together, these alchemical associations suggest that Shakespeare found in alchemy a fitting framework in which to present the drama of destabilization.

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