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Chaucerian Aesthetics

Chaucerian Aesthetics

Knapp, P.

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0230606687
ISBN13: 9780230606685
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 19 2008
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points. These sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent perspectives illuminate both the immediate pleasure of encountering beauty and its haunting promise of intelligibility. Although aesthetic reflection has sometimes seemed out of sync with modern approaches to mind and language, Knapp defends its value in general and demonstrates its importance for the analysis of Chaucer s narrative art. Focusing on language games, persons, women, humor, and community, this book ponders what makes art beautiful.

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