Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
New Books in Literary Studies
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I'm Refuting Carl Jung's Theories
I wouldn't say I'm refuting any kind of scholars too, but what I am doing is kind of linking it to that exemplar tradition. One of my contemporaries, Owen Bentek, who just published a book, Literature is a Valkumi. He used to present the congresses a lot together and he's kind of looking at more of the vernacular tradition as well too. So that's my argument too, so I'm saying that these medieval poems can be read as exemplar for kind of different aspects - how to practice science better, how to kind of be a better person essentially too. What they can mean and what they can be.
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