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Chaucerian Aesthetics

By Peggy A. Knapp (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2008
ISBN
978-1-349-60334-3, 978-0-230-61384-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2057372 bytes)
Series
The New Middle Ages
Edition
1
Pages
X, 242\247
Time added
2017-11-21 00:00:00
Medieval Literature;Classical and Antique Literatu

Description

Chaucerian Aesthetics engages both aesthetic pleasure and understanding in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and places them in relation to modern approaches to mind and language. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Why Aesthetics?....Pages 1-15 Chaucerian Resoun Ymaginatyf....Pages 17-42 Playing with Language Games....Pages 43-68 Beautiful Persons....Pages 69-97 The Beauty of Women....Pages 99-125 The Aesthetics of Laughter....Pages 127-153 Imagining Community....Pages 155-175 Back Matter....Pages 177-242

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