Chaucerian aesthetics / Peggy A. Knapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knapp, Peggy Ann.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The New Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Aesthetics, Medieval.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde.

Tales, Medieval--History and criticism.

Tales, Medieval.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tales 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.

Contents:

Introduction: why aesthetics?

Chaucerian resoun ymaginatyf

Playing with language games

Beautiful persons

The beauty of women

The aesthetics of laughter

Imagining community.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0230606687

9780230606685

OCLC:

183926627