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Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Lynch, Kathryn L.

Hardcover

Series: Chaucer Studies, Book 27

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0859916006
ISBN13: 9780859916004
Publisher: D S Brewer
Published: Nov 2 2000
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

Chaucer's Philosophical Visions dramatically extends our sense of the fourteenth-century poet's philosophical interests and learning.Arguing that Chaucer was well acquainted with late medieval English Scholasticism, this book offers new readings of four of his earliest major poems, the dream visions: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, and the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. By resituating these poems within the genre of the 'philosophical vision' (epitomized by Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy), these readings demonstrate Chaucer's interest in metaphysics, epistemology, and logic. Indeed, the only intellectual idiom available to Chaucer for exploring the way that the human mind works and the way that words work to express human reality was philosophical language, a language that Chaucer employed with the same technical acumen that he brought to other contemporary learned traditions, like astronomy and natural science.

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