The New Middle Ages

Knapp, P.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-09-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230606685

DOI: 10.1057/9780230613843

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 242