ABSTRACT The Fairy Melusine is a fictional literary text incorporated in A. S. Byatt's Booker-Prize winning novel Possession: A Romance, which is a retelling by the fictional poet LaMotte of Jean d’Arras's tale of the fairy, Melusina. This paper examines four of LaMotte's short poems, both texts and subtexts of the Melusina story, and explores how Paracelsus's definition of the snake-woman determines the alchemical imagery in LaMotte's literary texts. LaMotte artfully weaves narratives around both the snake-woman and alchemy out of recurrent images in Byatt's canon and uses them ingeniously to indicate the alchemical nature of Melusina as well as the nature and conditions of LaMotte's own long period of isolation and motherhood. Melusina becomes an alchemical symbol of the philosopher's stone, a symbol of LaMotte's long seclusion and an enactment of a recurrent motif in Byatt's works that isolation is a sine qua non of literary creation.

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Melusina 和 AS Byatt 在占有中的炼金术想象：一段浪漫

摘要 童话梅卢西娜是一部虚构的文学文本，收录在阿斯·拜亚特的布克奖获奖小说《占有：一段浪漫》中，该小说是虚构诗人拉莫特对让·达拉斯的童话梅卢西娜的复述。本文考察了拉莫特的四首短诗，包括梅卢西娜故事的文本和潜台词，并探讨帕拉塞尔苏斯对蛇女的定义如何决定拉莫特文学文本中的炼金术意象。LaMotte 巧妙地从 Byatt 经典中反复出现的图像中围绕蛇女和炼金术编织了叙事，并巧妙地使用它们来表明 Melusina 的炼金术性质以及 LaMotte 自己长期孤立和母性的性质和条件。梅露西娜成为贤者之石的炼金术符号，