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The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling

The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling

Rezension: The Experimental Fire. Inventing English Alchemy, 1300 ‐ 1700. Buch von Jennifer M. Rampling.

Nachrichten aus der ChemieVolume 69, Issue 6 p. 76-76 Service Rezension: The Experimental Fire. Inventing English Alchemy, 1300 - 1700. Buch von Jennifer M. Rampling. Jens Soentgen, Jens SoentgenSearch for more papers by this author Jens Soentgen, Jens SoentgenSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 June 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/nadc.20214109848Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume69, Issue6Juni 2021Pages 76-76 RelatedInformation

Representation of inner, outer and expanding circle varieties and cultures in global ELT textbooks

The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate the representation of world Englishes and cultures in three global language teaching textbooks, namely Interchange, English Result, and American English File. The textbooks were subjected to content analysis regarding their reference to Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circles’ varieties and their associated cultural contents. Kachru (The alchemy of English: The spread functions and models of non-native Englishes. Oxford: Pergamon, 1986) notion of Concentric Circles, and the categorization proposed by Pfister and Borzelli (Unterrichtspraxis 10:102–108, 1977) functioned as a framework to see which aspects of each culture (social, personal, religion/arts/humanities, political systems and institutions, and environmental concerns) were addressed in these textbooks. Findings revealed that most of the references to the three circles and cultural elements embodied in the textbooks were toward Inner Circle countries in American English File. Furthermore, in Interchange and English Result series, reference to Outer and Expanding Circles’ varieties and cultural elements were comparatively more evident. However, all the three textbook series mostly represented Inner-Circle accents. These findings have implications for materials developers to adopt an EIL-aware approach and to avoid the sole representation of native speakers’ linguistic norms and cultures in ELT textbooks.

The poetics and politics of Englishes in late modernity

AbstractThis paper argues that the ‘liberation linguistics’ perspective that Professor Kachru championed achieved two important aims: (i) it explored the creative manipulation of multilinguals’ repertoire in the late‐modern contexts of mobility and complexity; and (ii) it brought into focus the sociolinguistic inequalities engendered by a politics of conformity. Braj Kachru's teaching consistently highlighted the heterogeneity and multifunctionality of language, together with the meaning potential of variation, and his work continues to provide inspiration for the ongoing development of the field, and the ‘gloriously impure’ alchemy of English that he has bequeathed to us all.

Obituary: Professor Braj B. Kachru (1932–2016)

Obituary: Professor Braj B. Kachru (1932–2016)

The “Ingendred” Stone: The Ripley Scrolls and the Generative Science of Alchemy

Acquired at auction in 1958 from the library of C. W. Dyson Perrins, the Huntington Library’s Ripley scroll (HM 30313) is one of the most ornate and esoteric illuminated manuscripts of early modern England. Much remains unknown about the iconology and historical context of the Ripley scrolls, of which approximately twenty remain worldwide. The self-consciously archaic scroll at the Huntington draws on a range of contemporary sources, including emblem books, heraldic imagery, and illuminated alchemical manuscripts from the fifteenth century, such as the Rosarium philosophorum and the Aurora consurgens. Aaron Kitch situates the Ripley scrolls in the context of English alchemy in the sixteenth century, especially the tradition of emblematic alchemy and John Dee’s efforts to establish George Ripley as England’s chief alchemical authority. He analyzes the pattern of imagery on the scrolls in relation to the ancient and early modern philosophy of generation, which focused on questions about sexual reproduction and the emergence of new matter in nature.

Transmuting Sericon: Alchemy as "Practical Exegesis" in Early Modern England.

An influential strand of English alchemy was the pursuit of the "vegetable stone," a medicinal elixir popularized by George Ripley (d. ca. 1490), made from a metallic substance, "sericon." Yet the identity of sericon was not fixed, undergoing radical reinterpretation between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries as Ripley's lead-based practice was eclipsed by new methods, notably the antimonial approach of George Starkey (1628-65). Tracing "sericonian" alchemy over 250 years, I show how alchemists fed their practical findings back into textual accounts, creating a "feedback loop" in which the authority of past adepts was maintained by exegetical manipulations--a process that I term "practical exegesis."

The 'Forgotten' Language of Middle English Alchemy: Exploring Alchemical Lexis in the MED and the OED

The 'Forgotten' Language of Middle English Alchemy: Exploring Alchemical Lexis in the MED and the OED

John Dee and the alchemists: Practising and promoting English alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire

This paper investigates John Dee’s relationship with two kinds of alchemist: the authorities whose works he read, and the contemporary practitioners with whom he exchanged texts and ideas. Both strands coincide in the reception of works attributed to the famous English alchemist, George Ripley (d. c. 1490). Dee’s keen interest in Ripley appears from the number of transcriptions he made of ‘Ripleian’ writings, including the Bosome book, a manuscript discovered in 1574 and believed to have been written in Ripley’s own hand. In 1583, Dee and his associate Edward Kelley left England for East Central Europe, taking with them a proportion of Dee’s vast library, including alchemical books—the contents of which would soon pique the interest of continental practitioners. Kelley used Ripley’s works, including the Bosome book, not only as sources of practical information, but as a means of furthering his own relationships with colleagues and patrons: transactions that in turn influenced Ripley’s posthumous continental reception. The resulting circulation of texts allows us to trace, with unusual precision, the spread of English alchemical ideas in the Holy Roman Empire from the late sixteenth century.

Transmission and Transmutation: George Ripley and the Place of English Alchemy in Early Modern Europe

Continental authors and editors often sought to ground alchemical writing within a long-established, coherent and pan-European tradition, appealing to the authority of adepts from different times and places. Greek, Latin and Islamic alchemists met both in person and between the covers of books, in actual, fictional or coincidental encounters: a trope utilised in Michael Maier’s Symbola aureae mensae duodecim nationum (1617). This essay examines how works attributed to an English authority, George Ripley (d. c. 1490), were received in central Europe and incorporated into continental compendia. Placed alongside works by the philosophers of other nations, Ripley’s writings helped affirm the unity and truth of alchemy in defiance of its critics. His continental editors were therefore concerned not only with the provenance of manuscripts and high-quality exemplars, but by a range of other factors, including the desire to suppress controversial material, intervene in contemporary polemics, and defend their art. In the resulting compilations, the vertical axis of alchemy’s long, diachronic tradition may be compared to the horizontal plane of pan-European alchemy.

Empire's proxy: American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines

Acknowledgments Introduction: Educated Subjects: Literary Production, Colonial Expansion, and the Pedagogical Public Sphere 1 The Alchemy of English: Colonial State-Building and the Imperial Origins of American Literary Study 2 Empire's Proxy: Literary Study as Benevolent Discipline 3 Agents of Assimilation: Female Authority, Male Domesticity, and the Familial Dramas of Colonial Tutelage 4 The Performance of Patriotism: Ironic Affiliations and Literary Disruptions in Carlos Bulosan's America Conclusion: An Empire of Letters: Literary Tradition, National Sovereignty, and Neocolonialism NotesBibliography Index About the Author

Book Reviews : Braj B. Kachru. 1990. The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions and Models of Non-native Englishes. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (English in the Global Context). ix + 200 pp. US$12.95. Paperback

Book Reviews : Braj B. Kachru. 1990. The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions and Models of Non-native Englishes. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (English in the Global Context). ix + 200 pp. US$12.95. Paperback

The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions, and Models of Non-Native Englishes

What emerges from Kachru's fine work is the potential demarcation of an entire field, rather than merely the fruitful exploration of a topic. . . . [Kachru] is to be congratulated for having taken us as far as he already has and for doing so in so stimulating and so productive a fashion. -- World Englishes A potent addition to theoretical, sociolinguistic, attitudinal and methodological explorations vis-a-vis the spread and functions of, and innovations in, English from the viewpoint of a non-Western scholar. -- The Language Teacher Winner of the Joint First Prize, Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Competition of the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, 1987

The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes By Braj B. Kachru (review)

The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes By Braj B. Kachru (review)

Review of Kachru (1990): The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes

Review of Kachru (1990): The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes

Review of Kachru (1990): The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions, and Models of Non-Native Englishes

Review of Kachru (1990): The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions, and Models of Non-Native Englishes

THE SPREAD OF ENGLISH

The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions and Models of Non‐native Englishes. By Braj B. Kachru.

Kachru, Braj B. The Alchemy of English: the spread, function and models of non-native Englishes. Oxford: Pergamon, 1986

Kachru, Braj B. <i>The Alchemy of English: the spread, function and models of non-native Englishes</i>. Oxford: Pergamon, 1986